I want to make okolehao - need ti roots! - Tiki Drinks and Food

M MadDogMike Grand Member (8 years) The Anvil of the Sun Joined: Mar 30, 2008 Posts: 11036	M MadDogMike Posted posted on Wed, Jul 22, 2009 1:05 PM By the Sandwich Islanders, who arrived some years before, the natives had been taught to distill ardent spirits from the saccharine ti root, which they now practised to a great extent, and exhibited, in a proportionate degree, all the demoralizing and debasing influence of drunkenness. The baked ti root, Dracanae terminalis [sic], macerated in water, and already in a state of fermentation, was then put into the hollow stone, and covered with the unwieldy cap. The fire was kindled underneath; a hole was made in the wooden cap of the still, into which a long, small, bamboo cane, placed in a trough of cold water, was inserted at one end, and when the process of distillation was commenced, the spirit from the other flowed into a calabash, cocoanut shell, or other vessel, placed underneath to receive it (Ellis, 1829, p. 229).

By the Sandwich Islanders, who arrived some years before, the natives had been taught to distill ardent spirits from the saccharine ti root, which they now practised to a great extent, and exhibited, in a proportionate degree, all the demoralizing and debasing influence of drunkenness. The baked ti root, Dracanae terminalis [sic], macerated in water, and already in a state of fermentation, was then put into the hollow stone, and covered with the unwieldy cap. The fire was kindled underneath; a hole was made in the wooden cap of the still, into which a long, small, bamboo cane, placed in a trough of cold water, was inserted at one end, and when the process of distillation was commenced, the spirit from the other flowed into a calabash, cocoanut
shell, or other vessel, placed underneath to receive it (Ellis, 1829, p. 229).

Post #470940 by MadDogMike on Wed, Jul 22, 2009 1:05 PM