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Pinoy food technologies, resources, news and reviews. Includes food safety and health issues

How to Make Mango Jam

mango jam

INGREDIENTS ripe mangoes (carabao or piko variety) refined white sugar citric acid PACKAGING MATERIAL sterilized glass jars with PVC caps UTENSILS/SUPPLIES Waring blender or a coarse sieve stainless steel knives stainless steel mixing bowls measuring cups wooden spoon PROCEDURE 1. Weigh, sort ripe mangoes. 2. Wash in clean tap water to remove surface dirt. 3. [...]

How to Make Coco Jam

coco jam

INGREDIENTS grated coconut brown sugar glucose (corn syrup) UTENSILS expeller or press stainless steel cooking vessel stainless steel spoon or ladle stove PACKAGING MATERIAL sterilized glass jars with new PVC caps PROCEDURE 1. Extract coconut milk as described under Coconut Syrup (steps 1-4). 2. Boil extracts slowly until soft curds and oily streaks appear on [...]

How to Make Calamansi Jelly

making calamansi jelly

This technology was published by DOST Tekno Pangkabuhayan. The page was deleted so you cannot find it anymore: A detailed version of jelly making for calamansi jelly. General procedures for fruits can be found here. INGREDIENTS calamansi seeds water refined sugar calamansi juice UTENSILS/SUPPLIES stainless knife chopping board colander stainless casserole saucepan cheesecloth basin/mixing bowl [...]

How to Make Banana in Syrup, Preserve

banana in syrup

This technology was published by DOST Tekno Pangkabuhayan. The page was deleted so you cannot find it anymore: INGREDIENTS 1 kg banana [saba variety, matured - 80% yellow & 20% green] 240 g sugar (1 c) 420 mL water (1¾ c) UTENSILS/SUPPLIES colander casserole basin/mixing bowl stove chopping board ladle knife (stainless) weighing scale spoon [...]

Quality of Fruits Suitable for Dried Candy Strips

quality of fruits suitable for drying

Pineapple, mango, banana, papaya, guyabano and jackfruit can be dried to strip-like candy as long as the optimal ripeness of fruit are taken into consideration. The mango halves below are not suitable for drying, the fruits are soft and may contain more than 50% water. The resulting dried product would be very thin, light and [...]

The Easy Way to Remove Pineapple Eye

removing pineapple eye

What do you hate about the job of peeling pineapple ? Maybe we are thinking the same thing, it is the hard way or pineapple eye removal. The fruit eye have to be removed by curving it out one by one. You have no choice but to do it this way if you are serving [...]

Possible Uses of Santol Fruit

uses of santol

When I was still in high school. We have many santol trees in our farm, especially the bangkok variety. Bangkok variety is almost five times bigger than tagalog. It also more delectable. But father cut down trees one by one. Now, we have few trees left. My father did it for this reason: During peak [...]