Post #331662 by Okolehao on Mon, Sep 10, 2007 2:48 PM

I got another email from my Hawaiian contact. The story keeps getting more interesting all the time. He's doing some important cultural research on this thing with the help of lots of other people. Can you imagine getting different family recipies?

"Aloha,

Yes, I got the ti roots. They still have to be rinsed so I don’t know how much they weigh. I kept them in soil so they would stay alive and fresh. Recipe is not what I would like though. I was told that your recipe must have been the commercial one that was used. The one she told me about was older and I guess more like moonshine and was evidently against the law to make back then. Not sure which one you want. No percentages on ingredients though. She is checking with family members to see if we can get it more nailed down. She said the core is green ti root, bread fruit, and sugar cane, and then depending on who was making it they would add different fruits to alter the taste a little, so different families had slightly different tastes to their Oke. I figured maybe you could use your percentages from your recipe and apply it to this one and see what you get. Personally I would run both batches. I have people all over tracking this down so I’m certain more information is going to be trickling in to me soon