Polangui Municipal Tourism Culture and Arts Office - MTCAO

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Sugarcane, or sugar cane, is one of the several species of tall perennial true grasses of the genus Saccharum, tribe Andropogoneae, native to the warm temperate to tropical regions of South Asia, Melanesia, and used for sugar production. It has stout jointed fibrous stalks that are rich in the sugar sucrose, which accumulates in the stalk internodes. The plant is two to six metres (6 to 19 feet) tall.

“KALAMAY” is made from hardened sugarcane juice and coconut milk placed in a coconut shell. Primarily used as a sugar substitute in the preparation of native delicacies, it can be used to sweeten native glutinous rice-based snack food items locally known and called “suman”. ”linuswag”, champorado”, “linukay”, ”bokayo” (sweetened coconut milk) and “biko” (rice cake). As a “sweetening and binding” agent “kalamay” is used in the preparation of “peanut and pili” candies. When cooked with coconut cream – it produces an aromatic confectionery called “santan” (cocojam). “Santan” is made of coconut milk, “kalamay” and “pili” kernel. It can be used as a substitute for refined sugar for milk, coffee, chocolate and can be eaten as stand-alone dessert.

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