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| Tangkwa from my garden temporarily functions as a living room accent while waiting for my non-busy days to turn the gourd into a dessert using a Bulusan recipe with pili and lemon de china. |
The local "tangkwa" is a fruit in the gourd family (Cucurbitaceae
family), a herbaceous tendril-bearing vine that includes the cucumber,
melon, squash, and pumpkin.
Grown in the backyard garden of rural homes in the Philippines including Bulusan it is the main ingredient in a local dessert with pili nuts in marmalade-sugar mix accented by lemon de china.
This recipe can be considered a heritage recipe in this noted pili-riched town for this used to be a regular and popular dessert during fiestas in Bulusan. However this is seldom prepared now. The fruit brings memories of Lola Ingga and Lola Datay serving their guests with this well-loved 'dulsi na tangkwa' in my father's ancestral home in Poblacion Sabang in Bulusan.
Detailed instructions of this Bulusan heritage recipe of Dulsi na Tangkwa (Sweetened Tangkwa) is documented excellently in a Bulusanon web site :pamughaton.net
Bulusan, Sorsogon, Philippines
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