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Pandanus - bob
fresh - eat when ripe or uncooked

eroum ~ boiled pandanus
bane ~ bake keys in ground
peru - Pandanus pulp and juice mixed with grated coconut and coconut oil and
optionally with arrowroct starch, wrapped in breadfruit leaves and boiled
or baked.
mokan - The pudding from a cooked pandanus kev.
The food is removed from the
key by a process known as kilok.
The cooked pulp is then mixed with
other foods or eaten as is.
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Examples:
a)
often mixed with grated coconut

b)

mixed with coconut milk

c)

served with fish

d)

by itself as a dessert

jankwin - Cooked pandanus, extract from keys
keys--mokkay, dry in sun, wrap
in pandanus leaves and tie with sennit twine.
unripened pandanus - mashed with sugar or jekeru and water.
4.

Arrowroot - mokmok

The arrowroot is dug up from the oceanside of the island, placed in a
burlap bag, and washed until white.
Each separate piece is then grated with
a rock.
The arrowroot is placed in a wanliklik made of sennit (from fibers of
coconut husk)used for straining arrowroot starch.
It is then rinsed with two
bucxets of saltwater.
The arrowroot powder is then saved from the canvas or

wanliklik, wrapped in a cloth and tied in a tree to dry.

The powder is then removed

from the cloth (bag), dried in the sun and then stored for future use.

ways of cooking - a)
b)

boiling with waini
Beru Pandanus and mokmok

5.

Taro ~ iaraj

Stem and leaves are cut off and the remaining roct and sugar (optional) added to
boiling water.
The root

Cook one hour.

is also baked.

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