Crocodile Bread Loyalty Symbol

Among a variety of snacks in the delivery that is carried on the Betawi wedding ceremony, there lunkhead and a pair of alligator-shaped bread. Dodol are snacks of sugar and glutinous rice flour cooked until thickened and sticky. Confectionary is used as a symbol of attachment to the wedding couple and I always stick to each other until the end of hayat.Pembuatan lunkhead Betawi not easy because it requires extra power, especially when downloading conceited. Dodol must continue stirring for seven hours, if the stirring is stopped, lunkhead will feel hard and it is uneven. Typically, the stirrer lunkhead are men, while women prepare the material making lunkhead.

On the other hand, are relatively difficult to manufacture lunkhead is needed mutual cooperation, gaiety, and the spirit of brotherhood. Thus, the Betawi people consider making lunkhead is team work that aims to tighten the brotherhood. Dodol often referred to as cake snout (or conversation). This cake has a meaning if a lunkhead-laws come up with a cake that looks good and polynomial, then it is the rich-laws. Meanwhile, if the display cake dodolnya poorly, it will be a conversation.

While the bread shaped like a crocodile alligator symbolizes loyalty which during his life always faithful to her partner. In addition, bread crocodile is the symbol of patience, because the crocodile're always lurking and waiting patiently in their prey. However, there also interpret it as a symbol of virility.

As the most popular food Betawi. Bread crocodile brought the groom is a symbol of loyalty to spouse in favor of lively as dead. In Seserahan, bread is given a pair of crocodile, the smaller is represented as a female that is placed on the backs of the larger bread crocodile or beside it.

During the trip, this bread should remain smooth, should not be broken up into the hands of the bride. In addition, the crocodile bread symbolizes stability, because it was thought that the bread is the food of the crocodile upper class.

After the ceremony, the bread is given to relatives who are not married. That is, so that their vehicles and immediately get a mate. However, this crocodile bread tends to be difficult to obtain in the market, so people who need bread duhulu crocodiles have to order it in advance. Whereas, the bread is only used for bread hajatan.Selain crocodiles and lunkhead, delivery Betawi bride also called vegetable telubuk unifier. Betawi people refer to straw kind of plant cane as telubuk. There is also a mention of this as an endog seasonal crops of sugarcane. Ate from this plant is not blooming flowers and still veiled by a white sheath. Texture resembling fish eggs. Usually used as a vegetable mixture bersantan, dipepes or steamed for a salad.

For most of these vegetables Betawi community has an important meaning because it is the main ingredient in the manufacture of food delivery to the-laws. Telubuk unifying vegetables have small grains such as fish eggs can be fused into one big hump. This became the symbol of two families that can be fused in a single bond kekluargaan through marriage.

In addition to the philosophy of meaning contained in the various Betawi snacks, confectionary memunyai conducting these social values. This value appears as a way of making food is quite complicated and can not be done one person, for example lunkhead. Because of the difficulty of making this food, it must be made lunkhead together family members and neighbors around.

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