,

Coconut

- ni

ai - 1 to 5 months growth

L)

voung drinking

method - drink through hole in husk,
coconut

shell too fragile to husk, gelatinous

meat

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mature drinking coconut
method - husx coconut before drinking coconut meat
from side

3)

waini - 6 to 7 months growth
copra-producing coconut
use of liguid - usually
use of meat - eaten a)
b)
c)

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firm, use knife to cut

thrown awav, children drink occassionally
cut in wedges-with fish or by itself
grated and squeezed for coconut milk
use gratings in cooking, rice balls, mokan

iu - 8 to 3.1/2 months growth

spongy food inside sprouted coconut

use of tua)

b)

eaten raw

cut up and boiled with sugar or jekeru

c)
d)

cut up and boiled with flour, sugar or jekeru
raw iu cut up and sweetened with sugar or jekeru

Ff)

diutir - baked spongy meat

e)

iuwumum - spongy meat of sprouted coconut baked in its shell

rood from coconut sap
jekeru - sap from coconut blossom
uses - a)
drinking
b)
used as a sweetener in place of sugar,

i.e., donuts, bread

jakamai - boiled jekeru into a syrup
uses - a) used mixed with cold or hot water as a drink
b)
used for pancake syrup

c)

used as a sweetener

amedama - jakamai syrup mixed with grated coconut rolled in a ball - coconut
candy

coconut milk - produced from waini
method of extracting grated coconut from coconut meat is called roanke.
Then coconut milk is squeezed out of these coconut gratings.
uses - rice ~ Coconut milk squeezed into water at start of cooking.
Amount - coconut milk squeezed from one or two grated

coconuts per 500 g of rice.

mokan - cooked pandanus meat that has been removed from the

key (kilok)

a)

coconut milk added to mokanas as gravy

gravv - with clams, fish, breadfruit, pumpkin, used with all
foods available.

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