Bentuknya mirip cendol, tapi ada bedanya, cendol biasanya campurannya banyak, ada tape, roti, kacang merah yang direbus, santan, dan tak lupa gula “gila” cair. Tapi sebaliknya dengan dawet cukup dawet sendiri ditambah santan dan gula gila tadi. Maksudku dawet berisi dawet?, yang dibuat dari tepung ketan?, sebenarnya aku tidak tahu apakah yang hijau itu dawet dan dibuat dari tepung ketan, direbus dan menjadi kenyal berwarna hijau karena diberi pewarna dari daun pandan.
Yang aku tahu, dulu dawet dijual dengan dipikul, disimpan dalam guci atau kendi dari tanah liat, sehingga membuat dawet tetap sejuk, dingin dan segar tanpa perlu menggunakan es batu atau dimasukkan dalam kulkas. Biasanya aku membelinya di pasar kebumen, karena disana biasanya ibuku membelikanku waktu aku menemaninya belanja. Aku ingat wajah manis ibuku ketika mengajakku minum dawet, membiarkan aku minum duluan, sambil memandangiku sambil tersenuyum dan merasa bersalah, karena aku menjadi kepanasan dan kehausan sehabis keliling pasar. Ibuku suka beli dawet karena satu alasan, kata ibu sambil membantu orang, kasihan penjualnya sudah tua, ibuku orangnya agak perasa, gampang sedih kalau melihat orang tua jualan, malah kadang-kadang tak suka menawar. Aku kemudian suka mengikut sifat ibuku itu terutama ketika aku besar kemudian.
Penjualnya orang karang sari, berambut putih dan orangnya ramah. Tidak tahu kenapa para penjual dawet hanya orang tua, mungkin yang muda-muda tak lagi mau menjual minuman yang terkesan murahan.
Drinking Dawet
by hans@acehdigest
This drink named strange "dawet" what does that mean I do not know for sure, because people call them that, yes that's the drink its name. This drink is healthy because it is made from processed certain leaf with green dye from the leaves of pandanus.
It looked like cendol, but no difference, cendol usually mixtures lot, tape, bread, boiled red beans, coconut milk, and do not forget the "crazy" sugar. But contrary to his own dawet enough coconut milk and crazy sugar .I mean dawet content dawet?, Which is made from glutinous rice flour?, Actually I do not know what it dawet green and made of glutinous rice, boiled and become supple since been colored green from pandanus leaves.
All I know, it used to be borne dawet sold, stored in a jar or jars of clay, thus making dawet stay cool and fresh without the need to use ice cubes or put in refrigerator. Usually I buy it on the market Kebumen, because there is usually my mom bought me when I was shopping with her. I remember my mother's nice face when it took me a drink dawet, let me drink first, looking at me and feel guilty, because of I become heat and thirst after we were around the market. My mother likes to buy dawet for a reason, mom said as she helped people, sorry for the seller is old, my mother is rather sensitive person, easily upset when they see people selling old, sometimes even do not like to haggle. I then like to take my mother's nature, especially when I was big then.
The seller came from Karang Sari, white-haired and friendly person. Do not know why the seller dawet only the elderly, the young may no longer want to sell drinks that seem cheap.
