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Cereals and bread from Philippines

Bibingka (traditional fermented galapong)bibingka

Glutinous rice is soaked overnight in clay jars with palm toddy (tuba) or a starter (bubod), which starts a light fermentation, and is then stone-ground into a batter called galapong. With coconut milk and eggs the batter is baked in a banana-leaf-lined clay pan with coals above and below.

A short entry: the sources we found record only what is said here about Bibingka itself.

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Recipe

No fixed amounts recordedTraditional household and street process with no tested amounts found.
Glutinous rice[s1]
Tuba (palm wine) or bubod (starter)[s1][fao1999]
Coconut milk and eggs[s1]
Banana leavesTo line the baking pan[s1]
Starterother: tuba (palm wine) or bubod (starter)
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What changes: Rice soaks overnight in a jar with toddy or starter and begins to ferment

Step 1 of 4
Soak the rice overnight in jars with tuba or bubod
Time
Not documented
Temperature
Not documented
Salt
None given
Acidity
Not documented

Output: soaked, slightly fermented rice.

Flavour
a faint aftertaste
Texture
Not documented
Colour
Not documented

Microbes at work in this step

Not documented for this step.

Method

Measured measured in a studySet fixed by a specification or tested recipeReported one source reports itTypical a general value, not sourced for this fermentUnconfirmed not yet checked against a source

At a glance

Glutinous rice is soaked overnight in clay jars with palm toddy (tuba) or a starter (bubod), which starts a light fermentation, and is then stone-ground into a batter called galapong. With coconut milk and eggs the batter is baked in a banana-leaf-lined clay pan with coals above and below. Moulds, yeasts and lactic acid bacteria carried by bubod, a Philippine starter does most of the fermenting.

What makes this one different

Bibingka uses the same fermented galapong batter as puto, but it is enriched with coconut milk and eggs and baked between coals instead of steamed.

Related ferments

Variants

  • Bibingkang Mandaue (Cebu)Traditionally leavened with palm wine, now often with yeast.
  • Cassava bibingkaMade from grated cassava instead of rice.
  • Quick bibingkaRegular rice flour or Japanese mochiko flour in place of fermented galapong.

History and sources

Every number is labelled with how it is known. How this atlas is made

  1. [s1] Wikipedia, Bibingka (several steps tagged 'citation needed')wiki
  2. [fao1999] FAO 1999, Fermented cereals, a global perspective (FAO Agricultural Services Bulletin 138), chapter 3, Asia-Pacific (bubod starter)gov