Nicky Loh for the Wall Street Journal Malcolm Lee's spice paste includes lemongrass, galangal, turmeric root, shallots, garlic, shrimp paste, dried chilies and candlenuts. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Oseland calls for some pretty exotic ingredients in his book, most of which I can get but the 2 that continue to stump me are daun salam leaves and candlenuts, the first of which this recipe called for and so I had to leave out. ❋ Laura (2009)
Ms. Marbeck speculates that after the Portuguese introduced vindaloo to Malacca, locals added familiar, home-grown ingredients such as soy sauce (introduced to Malacca by the Chinese), candlenuts (a macadamia-like nut), galangal (a rhizome) and lemongrass. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Palms, candlenuts, ohias, hibiscus, were it not for their exceeding beauty, would almost pall upon one from their abundance, and each gulch has its glorious entanglement of breadfruit, the large-leaved ohia, or native apple, a species of ❋ Isabella Lucy (2004)
If he were wise, he would also bring most of the materials required for building a civilized society, since the islands had no bamboo for decorating a home, no candlenuts for lamps, no mulberry bark for making tapa. ❋ Michener, James (1959)
True, he had beheld shooting-stars (this in reply to Bassett's contention); but likewise had he beheld the phosphorescence of fungoid growths and rotten meat and fireflies on dark nights, and the flames of wood fires and of blazing candlenuts. ❋ Unknown (1918)
As we moved on I saw that the yellow flowers of the purau, dried red by the sun, -- poultices for natives 'bruises, -- and candlenuts in heaps, -- torches ready to hand, -- littered the moss. ❋ Frederick O'Brien (1900)
These were large bundles of cocoanut-husks and candlenuts soaked in oil, and they gave a generous flare. ❋ Frederick O'Brien (1900)
All through the night the game raged beneath the light of the candlenuts, in a silence broken only by the hoarse breathing of the crouching brown men, the sandy-sounding rustle of the palm-fronds overhead, and cries of "Ante uppy!" or "Comely center!" ❋ Frederick O'Brien (1900)
I saw the warriors with their spears of cocoanut-wood and their deadly clubs of ironwood carved and shining with oil, their baskets of polished stones slung about their waists, and their slings of fiber, dancing in the sacred grove of the Pekia, its shadows lighted by the blaze of the flickering candlenuts and the scented sandalwood. ❋ Frederick O'Brien (1900)
_Popoi_ bowls and wooden platters of the roasted breadfruit were brought within shelter, and while the hissing rain put out the fires on the _paepae_ the candlenuts were lighted and all squatted for the evening meal. ❋ Frederick O'Brien (1900)
But inspiring as was this sport at sunset or by moonlight, it was even more exciting when we trod the reef with torches of dried reeds or leaves or candlenuts threaded upon the spines of cocoanut-leaves, and lanced the fish that were drawn by the lure of the lights, or which we saw by their glare passing over the reef. ❋ Frederick O'Brien (1900)
The leaves make screens and roofs of dwellings, baskets, and coverings, and in the pagan temples of Tahiti were the rosaries or prayer-counters, while on their stiff stalks the candlenuts are strung to give light for feasts or for feasting. ❋ Frederick O'Brien (1900)
Only in the cocoanut-grove the candlenuts were lit as the stars peeped through the roof of the world. ❋ Frederick O'Brien (1900)
So Great Fern conceived him as a kind of cross between a man and a boar, with a tail like that of a shark, running through the forests with a bunch of lighted candlenuts and setting fire to the houses of the wicked. ❋ Frederick O'Brien (1900)
The candlenuts, threaded on long spines of cocoanut-leaves, blazed only a few seconds, but each dying one lit the one beneath as it sputtered out, and the scores of strings shed a continuous though wavering light upon the shining mat and the cards. ❋ Frederick O'Brien (1900)
They bury them in a deep hole lined with cracked candlenuts and grass and cover all with earth. ❋ Frederick O'Brien (1900)
(ground spice paste that varies in ingredients, but usually includes palm sugar, garlic, shallots and candlenuts) before dunking it in hot oil to finish cooking. ❋ Unknown (2009)
