Meskipun namanya aneh, yang ini juga salah satu makanan favoritku. Makanan tradisional memang kadang-kadang memiliki nama yang aneh dan lucu. Nama makanan yang satu ini disamakan dengan tempat memasaknya. Karena di masak dalam kuali tanah atau candil dan setelahnya pun diletakkan dalam candil, maka dinamakannya bubur atau jenang itu Jenang Candil.
Penjualnya seorang wanita tua yang ramah, bertubuh agak gemuk tapi masih kuat, aku sudah lupa namanya, beliau orang Karang sari dan kalau tak salah beliau istri dari salah seorang pekerja di tempat kakek juga. Beliau membawa dagangannya dengan kain selendang batik, dan tempat jajananya terbuat dari bambu bulat, berlapis tiga seperti laci berdiameter ukuran kurang lebih lima puluh sentimeter. Kelak jika aku berkesempatan untuk kembali, aku akan menyimpan maksudku membeli benda seperti itu, untuk sekedar kenang-kenangan. Kata nenek mereka sudah menjadi langganan keluarga kami sejak lama, bahkan sejak kami belum lahir. Barang dagangan yang dijajakannya bermacam,-macam ,selain jenang candil juga ada bubur sumsum, berwarna putih dengan taburan gula cair encer di atasnya. Jenang candil sendiri, berwarna agak kemerahan karena dicampur dengan gula merah, dan berisi bulatan-bulatan seperti bakso, terbuat dari campuran tepung beras dan tepung ketan yang direbus, lalu dimasukkan dalam cairan Jenang tadi.
Yang unik adalah tempat sajiannya, karena tidak menggunakan piring atau mangkuk, melainkan menggunakan daun pisang yang dibentuk sedemikian rupa sehingga berbentuk seperti mangkuk kecil berbentuk kotak. Setiap kali nenek penjual itu datang aku selalu dibelikan baik oleh ibu maupun nenek, karena aku paling suka dengan kedua jenis bubur tadi.
Sebenarnya ada beberapa jenis makanan lain yang dijual, tapi yang masih kuingat adalah bentuknya bukan namanya, salah satunya makanan kecil berbentuk segitiga dibuat dari ketan dengan balutan seukuran daun bambu. Setiap kali kita membelinya penjualnya akan membuka lilitan tadi satu persatu, bentuknya kurang lebih sebesar ibu jari tak begitu besar jadi harus rajin dan sabar membukanya. Jumlahnya tergantung maunya kita, setelahnya barulah ditaburi dengan bubuk gula aren, bukan dengan taburan gula cair. Namun ada juga yang menyukai campuran dengan gula cair.Meskipun aslinya makanan tersebut dengan gula panir/bubuk gula merah tadi. Rasanya khas, legit dan enak.
Ada juga "oyek", makanan dari ubi yang diolah menjadi butir-butir tak beraturan, berwarna coklat, bercampur hitam dan putih dan dimakan dengan campuran ampas kelapa yang dicapur sedikit garam dan gula pasir putih. Satunya lagi yang juga tak kalah aneh tapi juga menarik, adalah "Canil", makanan bernama aneh ini berbentuk, maaf, seperti lintah berwarna-warni. Dibuat dari tepung ketan yang dipilin dan dikukus, dan diberi warna-warna dengan daun pandan dan pewarna makanan sederhana (aku ingat biasanya dikemas dalam kertas seperti amplop kecil berwarna agak transparan sehingga kita bisa melihat warnanya dari luar, dengan ukuran sachet kecil kurang lebih lima sentimeter). Aku sedikit tahu karena ibuku pernah membuat cendol untuk es campur berwarna hijau dengan pewarna itu, kata ibu tak berbahaya. Tapi entahlah, tapi seingatku di tahun-tahun itu tak banyak hal-hal aneh tentang makanan, apalagi makanan berpengawet.
Hal lain yang juga aku ingat tentang jajanan itu, aku merasa ketika jajanan itu kami makan, tak hanya sekedar jajan, tapi kami merasa diperhatikan terutama oleh ibu dan nenek. Pokoknya asal penjaja itu datang, kami pasti langsung memesannya tak peduli ada uang atau tidak. Paman pernah bercanda, enak saja panggil-panggil penjual, memangnya ada duit?. Kami hanya tertawa dan tak peduli, tinggalah nenek penjual yang kebingungan, ini jadi beli apa tidak, jangan-jangan tak serius. Tapi nenek selalu membelanya, jadi aku dan adik-adikku pasti jadi menyantapnya. Kenangan itu pula yang seringkali membuat kami kangen dan terkenang dengan nenek, karena sejak kepindahanku hingga nenek tiada, aku tak pernah menemuninya lagi. Itu di tahun 1978 kalau tak salah.
Aku juga teringat (bila aku mengingat itu aku merasa bersalah, karena bisa jadi itu membuat ibu malu) ibu kadang-kadang berkecil hati dan merasa tidak enak, karena hampir setiap kali nenek selalu membelikannya untuk kami, sedangkan ibu kadang-kadang juga tak tahu dengan ulah kami yang sedikit nakal. Jika melihatnya juga ibu tak berkomentar apa-apa selain diam, dengan wajah sedikit muram. Mungkin karena tak enak dan kasihan kepada anak-anaknya, meski kami nakal sekalipun.
Porridge Candil and Marow
by hans@acehdigest
Despite the strange name, which is also one of my favorite foods. Traditional food does sometimes have a strange and funny names. Name one food that is equated with place to cook. Because the cook in the cauldron of land or Candil and thereafter was placed in Candil, then he called gruel or porridge was Jenang Candil.
The seller was a friendly old woman, was rather plump but still strong, I've forgotten her name, she is the Karang Sari and if not mistaken hers wife of one of the workers at the grandparents as well. She brought hers wares with batik cloth shawl, and a snack made of bamboo round, three-layered like a drawer in diameter size of approximately fifty centimeters. Later, if I had a chance to come back, I'll keep buying things like that mean, to just a memento. Grandmother said they already subscribed to our family for a long time, even since we were not yet born. Sell merchandise in addition to a variety of porridge marow also there, white with a sprinkling of sugar on top of it diluted liquid. Candil own porridge, slightly reddish in color because it blended with brown sugar, and contains the dots like meatballs, made from a mixture of rice flour and glutinous rice flour is boiled, then put in a liquid Jenang earlier.
What is unique is the place of grain, because it does not use a plate or bowl, but instead use banana leaves are formed in such a way that is shaped like a small bowl-shaped box. Each time the seller's grandmother came I always bought either by the mother and grandmother, because I most liked by both types of porridge earlier.
Actually there are several other types of food are sold, but who still remember the shape rather than by name, one triangle-shaped snack made of glutinous rice wrapped with bamboo leaf size. Every time we buy the seller will remove the coil had one by one, more or less the shape of your thumb was not great so it should be diligent and patient open. The amount depends wants us, after that then sprinkled with powdered sugar palm, with a sprinkling of sugar instead of liquid. But there is also a love mixed with liquid sugar. Although the original food with sugar panir / powdered sugar earlier. It was typical, sticky and delicious.
There are also "oyek", the food of sweet cassava processed into grains of irregular, brown, black and white mixed and eaten with a mixture of coconut pulp is mixed with a little salt and sugar white sand. The other that is equally bizarre but also interesting, is "Canil", this oddly named food-shaped, sorry, like leeches colorful. Made from sticky rice flour and steamed twisted, and given the colors with pandan leaves and simple food coloring (I remember usually packaged in small paper envelopes colored somewhat transparent so that we can see the color from the outside, with a small sachet size of about five centimeters ). I know a little because my mom never made cendol for ice mixed with green dye, the mother said was harmless. But I do not know, but I remember in those years was not a lot of strange things about the food, especially food berpengawet.
Another thing I remember about the snacks, the snacks that I feel when we eat, not just a snack, but we feel cared for primarily by his mother and grandmother. Anyway, it comes from vendors, we would immediately order it no matter there is money or not. Uncle used to joke, good call just dial-seller, Do they have money?. We just laughed and did not care, stay distraught grandmother sellers, so buy what is not, lest not serious. But grandma always defend us, so I and my brothers would be eating it. The memory also often makes us miss and fond memories with my grandmother, because since my move to grandma's gone, I never see him again. That was in 1978 I think.
I also remember (if I remember that I felt guilty, because it could be make mothers ashamed) mothers sometimes get discouraged and feel bad, because almost every time grandma always bought him for us, while the mother is sometimes also do not know with caused us a bit naughty. If the mother also saw no comment nothing but silence, with faces a little grim. Perhaps because of bad and sorry for his children, even though we were naughty.
The seller was a friendly old woman, was rather plump but still strong, I've forgotten her name, she is the Karang Sari and if not mistaken hers wife of one of the workers at the grandparents as well. She brought hers wares with batik cloth shawl, and a snack made of bamboo round, three-layered like a drawer in diameter size of approximately fifty centimeters. Later, if I had a chance to come back, I'll keep buying things like that mean, to just a memento. Grandmother said they already subscribed to our family for a long time, even since we were not yet born. Sell merchandise in addition to a variety of porridge marow also there, white with a sprinkling of sugar on top of it diluted liquid. Candil own porridge, slightly reddish in color because it blended with brown sugar, and contains the dots like meatballs, made from a mixture of rice flour and glutinous rice flour is boiled, then put in a liquid Jenang earlier.
What is unique is the place of grain, because it does not use a plate or bowl, but instead use banana leaves are formed in such a way that is shaped like a small bowl-shaped box. Each time the seller's grandmother came I always bought either by the mother and grandmother, because I most liked by both types of porridge earlier.
Actually there are several other types of food are sold, but who still remember the shape rather than by name, one triangle-shaped snack made of glutinous rice wrapped with bamboo leaf size. Every time we buy the seller will remove the coil had one by one, more or less the shape of your thumb was not great so it should be diligent and patient open. The amount depends wants us, after that then sprinkled with powdered sugar palm, with a sprinkling of sugar instead of liquid. But there is also a love mixed with liquid sugar. Although the original food with sugar panir / powdered sugar earlier. It was typical, sticky and delicious.
There are also "oyek", the food of sweet cassava processed into grains of irregular, brown, black and white mixed and eaten with a mixture of coconut pulp is mixed with a little salt and sugar white sand. The other that is equally bizarre but also interesting, is "Canil", this oddly named food-shaped, sorry, like leeches colorful. Made from sticky rice flour and steamed twisted, and given the colors with pandan leaves and simple food coloring (I remember usually packaged in small paper envelopes colored somewhat transparent so that we can see the color from the outside, with a small sachet size of about five centimeters ). I know a little because my mom never made cendol for ice mixed with green dye, the mother said was harmless. But I do not know, but I remember in those years was not a lot of strange things about the food, especially food berpengawet.
Another thing I remember about the snacks, the snacks that I feel when we eat, not just a snack, but we feel cared for primarily by his mother and grandmother. Anyway, it comes from vendors, we would immediately order it no matter there is money or not. Uncle used to joke, good call just dial-seller, Do they have money?. We just laughed and did not care, stay distraught grandmother sellers, so buy what is not, lest not serious. But grandma always defend us, so I and my brothers would be eating it. The memory also often makes us miss and fond memories with my grandmother, because since my move to grandma's gone, I never see him again. That was in 1978 I think.
I also remember (if I remember that I felt guilty, because it could be make mothers ashamed) mothers sometimes get discouraged and feel bad, because almost every time grandma always bought him for us, while the mother is sometimes also do not know with caused us a bit naughty. If the mother also saw no comment nothing but silence, with faces a little grim. Perhaps because of bad and sorry for his children, even though we were naughty.
