"តក់ៗពេញបំពង់" with its second completed part "[ឆុងៗកន្លះក្រហត]" meaning "Drop after drop, a [bamboo] tube fills, [and filling a tube in a haste would have it spilled out to half empty]." referring to Cambodian peasants, in their dry-season daily life, use bamboo tubes as receptacles to hold drops of palm-juice on top of palm-trees overnight.
The palm-juice is boiled and regularly stirred in a big large open-mouth [metal] vase till becoming sugar paste called [Khmer or Cambodian] palm-sugar [made á la Khmére] nutritiously and naturally nice in smell and taste. The still hot paste is poured into palm-leaf, coin-shaped strips to make skor-phaen, that is, the coin-shaped sugar lumps to be wrapped in the srak-skor (coined palm-sugar arranged in,) the palm-leaf made envelops.
The sugar itself is a typical product of Khmer people. Only Khmer people make palm-juice sugar, whether they live in the present Cambodia, their remnant native land, or in parts of Thailand, Laos and Vietnam that used to be parts of the Great Khmer Empire 1,000 years back.Collapse this post
The palm-juice is boiled and regularly stirred in a big large open-mouth [metal] vase till becoming sugar paste called [Khmer or Cambodian] palm-sugar [made á la Khmére] nutritiously and naturally nice in smell and taste. The still hot paste is poured into palm-leaf, coin-shaped strips to make skor-phaen, that is, the coin-shaped sugar lumps to be wrapped in the srak-skor (coined palm-sugar arranged in,) the palm-leaf made envelops.
The sugar itself is a typical product of Khmer people. Only Khmer people make palm-juice sugar, whether they live in the present Cambodia, their remnant native land, or in parts of Thailand, Laos and Vietnam that used to be parts of the Great Khmer Empire 1,000 years back.Collapse this post
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