Kegiatan Bikun dan Gempa Sumbar

Just recently West Sumatra / Padang area rocked by a devastating earth quake. It damaged many facilities. Many schools collapsed. Thousands of houses suddenly turned into rubble. Many children suddenly became orphans. They need help from other friends. Bikun students have raised donation appeal. The students organized events and they invited parents to donate anything that could help Padang people to go through their hard time. They successfully gained some money, clothes, noodles, blankets, canned food, etc. They gave the donation to the committee in Kuningan Regency to be delivered to Padang. This was a good activity for the students to feel sympathy to those who are in calamity said Pak Kartino. He also wants his students to be more sensitive to others life and good occasion to train them to be generous people.


Pak Kartino also informed me that he would like to send Carra a package. The package is meant to cement the on-going educational relationship between Carra and Bikun. He hopes that the friendship would intensify in the near future. He also said that the MOU draft is on the process of signing by the person in charged, and it will soon be posted to Carra. He is eager to establish an everlasting relation, that is why he proposes to innitiate a joint project with Carra, in order to maintain the relationships (Compiled by HS).

Tape Singkong

GETTING TO KNOW THE MATERIALS
Preparation of a tape ketan /singkong starter material called ragi tape was described by using pure cultures of A. rouxii, S. cerevisiae, P. anomale (HA 122) and P. anomale (HA 893) grown on rice. In a fermentation experiment this self-produced ragi tape was compared with a commercial available ragi tape (NKL). In addition to that, the growth of fungi, yeast and bacteria as well as the biochemical changes during the fermentation process of tape ketan were monitored. To do this, samples were taken periodically after 0, 5, 10, 15, 24, 36, 48 and 60 h fermentation with a commercially available starter (Tebu) at 30 degrees C. Samples were analysed for DM, ash, total N, soluble N, glucose before and after hydrolysis, ethanol, lactic acid, pH and viable cell count. Results show that a palatable product was ready for consumption after 48 h. Finally, tape ketan was prepared using two different samples of Indonesian ragi tape (Tebu) as inoculum and the products were compared by their nutritional constituents.
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Tape singkong sudah terkenal di mana-mana, murah, lezat, dan menyenangkan. Tape yang sudah terkenal adalah tape ( peuyeum ) bandung. Peuyeum Bandung banyak yang menyukainya, karena manis rasanya dan tidak berair. Andapun dapat membuat tape sendiri, karena caranya tidaklah sukar. Adapun bahan-bahannya adalah: singkong yang sudah tua 2 kg, ragi tape yang manis ( dapat dibeli di toko bahan kue / pasar tradisional ). Sedangkan alat-alat yang diperlukan: pisau pengupas, panci untuk mengukus plus tutupnya, kompor, nyiru / tampah bambu, cobek / cowek dan munthunya untuk menepungkan ragi tape, daun pisang secukupnya dan bakul dari bambu.

Cara pembuatannya adalah: singkong dikupas kulitnya, kemudian dicuci bersih, dipotong-potong atau dibiarkan utuh. Lalu ditanak dalam panci sampai setengah matang, setelah itu singkong diangkat dan ditata / diangin-anginkan di atas nyiru sampai dingin, ragi ditumbuk sampai halus, singkong dilumuri tepung ragi satu persatu sampai merata betul, kemudian ditempatkan dalam bakul bambu yang sudah dialasi / dilambari daun pisang secara rapat / merata, isi sampai bakul tsb penuh, setelah penuh tutup rapat bakul dengan daun pisang dan tambahkan kain yang diikat rapat sebagai penutup. Sumber lihat:

http://ide-boedie.blogspot.com/2008/07/membuat-tape-singkong.html

Membuat Fermentasi Cassava/Sticky Rice

Beli singkong atau cassava frozen di Asian Grocery, bisa juga bahan itu sticky rice atau beras ketan, cara mengerjakannya adalah sebagai berikut:

1. Pilihlah singkong yang bagus dan rata, kemudian dikupas, dipotong- potong sesuai selera dan dicuci bersih.
2. Kemudian potongan singkong tersebut direbus sampai matang kemudian ditiriskan.
3. Tunggu singkong tersebut sampai dingin, bias juga pakai kipas angin.
4. Sediakan ragi tape yang bias dibeli di took obat makanan, kemudian ditumbuk halus dan diayak pakai ayakan atau saringan.
5. Taburkan ragi halus ke singkong-singkong yang sudah dingin sampai rata.
6. Sediakan tempat untuk menyimpan singkong yang sudah ditaburi ragi tersebut, bias memakai plastic ataupun memakai daun pising atau daun jati.
7. Peram bungkusan singkong tersebut kurang lebih 3 hari
8. Setelah 3 hari bukalah bungkusan singkong tersebut, dan tape singkong siap dinikmati.