It ’s bilimbi time !
Last week I exhaust what may be the most controversial film I ’ve ever uploaded to YouTube , if not the uncanny . *
In Search of … Bilimbi !
I had people indite me to check that I was okay after that one .
If you ca n’t stand the trailing , stay out of the Averrhoa bilimbi !
I ’ve always had a thing for old scientific discipline and nature documentaries . I used to watch them on a rippled old TV coiffe or off twist VHS tapes . In the bilimbi picture show I recreated that in arresting technicolor .
Anyhow , for those of you that did n’t get it … I find very badly for you .
It is a powerful and beautiful film of which YouTube is not desirable .
Every distorted shape and tracking error was lovingly bridge player - built .
Every warbly piece of the vintage soundtrack was tweaked and EQed for maxiumum impact .
Even now a tear comes to my eye as I ponder the masterpiece I created .
The Backstory
I cheat on across the creek behind our place and up the versant with some of the minor one good afternoon on a rambling exploration and that ’s when we first see the Averrhoa bilimbi Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree . I tell apart it from the ikon in my well - be intimate copy ofFruits of Warm Climatesand could n’t believe I finally stick to see one in person .
Unfortunately , I did n’t have my camera so I could entrance images for all of you – so I decide to go back the next day in search of the bilimbi , this time armed withmy inexpensive Nikon L830 in typesetter’s case I fell down the rocks or something .
I search and search and seek , doing my best to retrace my steps … and had no luck ! The next afternoon I essay again … and still no luck !
That ’s where the film came from . A fruitless ( heheh ) hunting .
Finally , I asked again for directions from a local friend and he say me where to look . That third meter … well … I ’ll just permit you watch the video :
I really was quite happy to find that Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree at long last . Look at all that yield !
It ’s a small Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree , alike in growth and coming into court to its cousin the starfruit but bear fruit directly from its trunk instead of just on the branch .
The fruit is improbably acidic . As I say in the video , they savour like War Heads confect .
But What Is a Bilimbi?
Bilimbi is a fruit tree and relative of starfruit . Its Romance name isAverrhoa bilimbi , whereas starfruit ’s Latin name isAverrhoa carambola .
Bilimbi has some interesting food for thought usesaccording to Purdue University :
“ The bilimbi is generally regarded as too Elvis for eating bare-assed , but in Costa Rica , the green , uncooked fruit are prepared as a flavour which is served with rice and beans . Sometimes it is an backup for fish and meat . good fruits are frequently bring to curries in the Far East . They concede 44.2 % succus get a pH of 4.47 , and the juice is popular for pass water cooling beverages on the purchase order of lemonade .
Mainly , the bilimbi is used in place of mango to make chutney , and it is much preserved . To reduce acidulousness , it may be first pricked and soaked in piss overnight , or soaked in salt urine for a shorter metre ; then it is churn with much lolly to make a jam or an back breaker jelly . The latter , in Malaya , is added to stew fruit that are oversweet . Half - mature fruits are salted , set out in the sunshine , and pickle in seawater and can be thus save for 3 month . A nimble jam is made by putting the fruits and salt into simmering urine . This merchandise can be kept only 4 to 5 mean solar day .
The flowers are sometimes preserve with sugar . ”
estimable enough for me . You ’re getting added to the homestead , bilimbi !
I brought home some crappy good yield from around the bilimbi tree on my net quest and will be assay to grow the seed contained therein . The flavor , though powerfully sour , strikes me as take great culinary value . It would be nice to have a tree diagram right where I can incur it .
particularly considering the problem I have finding bilimbis .
- This film would believably take the “ weirdest ” award :
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