Masi Ulu: The Breadfruit
Preserve
One picks breadfruit, particularly if the breadfruit
harvest is big, and many rot. The preserve hole is also lined with banana
leaves. Then breadfruits are brought and thrown into the preserve hole;
some of them are thrown in whole, while others are split and also thrown
into the hole. With one kind of breadfruit preserve the breadfruit is first
scraped off, with another kind they are thrown in in their skins. When the breadfruit preserve is soft
a little of it is taken out, but new breadfruits are again added. The
preserves are very useful when there is famine, because they do not spoil as
long as they lie covered in the ground. There is only one task
one always has to do, that is, to replace the banana leaves of the preserve so
that they do not decay and thus spoil the preserve.
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