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| masakan zaman dolu2... Saya masih ingat masa saya kecil, nenek dan ibu saya selalu masak kuih-muih dan lauk pauk yg sekarang ni sudah jarang saya temui. Namun masakkan2 itu boleh dihidupkan kembali tapi rasanya mungkin tidak sama sebab rasa masakkan boleh berbeza disebabkan air tangan pembuatnya. Masa kan sama air tangan nenek & air tangan ibu berbanding dgn air tangan kita sendiri. Tapi yg anehnya anak2 kita juga berkata begitu pulak dgn kita...'Sedaplah masakkan mama...yelah, maklumlah air tangan ibu'. Begitulah kitaran hidup kita. Kita memuji masakkan ibu kita, anak kita memuji pulak masakkan kita. Dalam tahunan 60'an ketika saya di sekolah rendah, saya rasa emak saya memang hebat kalau memasak. Mak selalu buat ibu kek utk hari raya. Ibu kek ialah kek utama yg diletak di tengah2 meja hidangan bersama2 kuih raya, pudding, ketupat & rendang. Mak selalunya buat kek buah yg very rich full of dried fruits. Kemudian disaluti royal icing yg keras dan sgt manis. Ianya dihiasi pulak dgn bunga2 icing dan ditulis atasnya "Selamat Hari Raya'. Kek ni tak siapa pun boleh sentuh, potong atau makan. Ia akan berada di meja tu selama beberapa hari. Bila hari raya dah suam2 kuku, barulah kek itu boleh dimakan. How cruel! Satu lagi yg mesti ada di meja raya kami adalah pudding agar2 arnab. Agar2 tu berbentuk ibu arnab dan 4 ekor anak arnab putih duduk disekelilingnya. Agar2 hijau pula dibuat agak keras dan disagat jadi rumput hiasan. Ini pun tak dibenarkan sentuh atau makan. Hari raya kedua barulah dimakan...simpan lama2 tak boleh nanti basi sebab agar2 ni dibuat dgn susu.
Inilah sebahagian daripada kuih raya kami tahun 60'an dulu...tak de kuih2 canggih dan moden mcm kuih2 sekarang tapi kami sangat hargai ketulenan kuih2 lama ni....
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kuih putu kacang
kuih bangkit santan
kuih bahulu
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kuih goyang/ros
yg ini kuih yg paling popular....semperit
 terjumpa pulak foto peralatan buat kueh zaman dolu2.. v Hari raya....(1)
Hari Raya Puasa in the 60’s in Chamang
was the best. A few weeks before the big awaited day, everyone was on their heels preparing all sorts
of things. Everything was homemade; dodol, bahulu, kuih loyang, bangkit santan,
lemang, rendang and cookies. Mak was so good in making all these but actually
without extra human labour nothing would be accomplished. Stirring the dodol
and rendang as well as grilling the lemang would definitely shed blood, sweat
and tears out of Pakcik Ya, Pakcik Johar, Abang Mat and Uncle Guru but they
were always given their fair share of it.
We
had no electrical appliances such as blender, whisker or oven. Everything was
prepared and done by hand. It took one whole day to cook each of these. We were
not baking only 100 or 200 pieces of cookies or bahulu but thousands! We did
not keep them in Tupperware containers instead in big tins with acrylic windows
so that we could see the contents. Sometimes the row of tins reminded me of the
‘kedai runcit kampong Cina’ –our regular grocery shop.
v Hari raya...(2)
Mak was an expert in making the ibu kek, agar-agar, puddings and nasi impit kuah kacang(rice cake and
peanut sauce). It seemed being an active member of the WI(Women’s Institute)
paid. Now I know why her girls Da, Simah, Rin, Nun, Ni and Zam could cook very well. Mak’s ibu
kek was usually a home baked rich fruit cake. She would decorate it with beautiful
pink roses with leaves and rows of patterns around the side and on top of the
cake, all using the very sweet, hard and tooth-piercing royal icing–a
combination of icing sugar and egg whites.
Then there was this plain red strawberry
jelly moulded in a very heavy thick glass mould. We actually enjoyed watching
the jelly wobbled endlessly on the table instead of eating it! A must was this
special agar-agar arnab. The white mother
rabbit would be sitting on green shredded agar-agar surrounded by four of its
babies. This agar-agar must not be touched or eaten by anyone. It could only be
eaten the next day!
this is the jelly I made today using the original glass mould used about 50 years ago
v Hari raya....(3)
Our house would be full of friends on hari
raya. They came in bus loads! The MIC and MCA members came in buses. Apak’s
close friends Mr. Stork, Mr. and Mrs. Marsh, Mr Prince, Ah Chong , were among
the crowd. Not forgetting the Chamang people. That was why we had to prepare
tons of food. That was the true hari raya spirit!
There was this China man Mok Yeng Kong
who did not abide by Mak’s hari raya rule. Tempted by Mak’s glassy and wobbly
decoration pudding, he pinched off its top without warning and shoved it into
his mouth. It was followed by a smile of satisfaction! We all laughed at the
sight but Mak seemed rather annoyed.......come on now, it's okay...anyway it's hari raya… tak pe lah
Mak...
@Bagi saya kuah kacang nasi impit arwah mak still the best!
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