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- Name (Thai)
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หลุมพีดอง/ระกำดอง
- Name (English)
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Brine picked Thai Lim-pee / snake fruit
- Local name
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Ra-kam-dorng Lum-pee-dorng Look-pee-dorng
- Product
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Fruit
- Ingredients
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Lumpee or Ra-kam fruits (Lum-pee is more commonly used as it has more flesh): Salacca conferta (Lum-pee) Salacca rumphii (Ra-kam) Salt, sugar, water.
- Fermentation
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3 days.
- Storage life
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1 month.
- Microorganisms
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- Properties
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Brownish yellow fruit with a sour and salty taste.
- Method
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1. Peel the fruit, separate the flesh from the seeds, wash and drain off the water. Pack the fruit in a clean jar.
2. Dissolve salt and sugar in water in the ratio of 1 cup, 2 tablespoons and 4 cups respectively for 30 fruit. Boil the solution and leave it to cool. Cover the fruit with the solution, close the jar and leave it under shade to ferment for 3 days.
- Production
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In home industry.
- Consumption
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Eat alone, or dip in a mixture of sugar, salt and crushed chilli.