MURA: Pastillas Candies
Pastillas de Leche if directly translated from Spanish means “milk tablets” or “milk pills” which basically describes this Filipino sweet delicacy. This is made from evaporated milk with some mixtures to make it like a dough. The dough will be formed into small shape and be coated with sugar.
This project aims to create a new way to package a popular Filipino sweet called Pastillas. Usually packaged with colourful wrapping paper, batched and sealed in a plastic bag, Pastillas candies are very marketable due to its delicious, milky taste for it is a snack fit for any time of the day and can be eaten in numerous amounts without getting overwhelmed with flavour.
This project deals with re-packaging a small piece of candy and evolving it into something that is more marketable to a wider audience outside of the Filipino cul- ture through the use of branding and clean design, yet without losing its Filipino roots.
Ube - purple yam; a tuberous root vegetable.
* Purple in colour
* Purple yam as an amalgamation of vanilla with the nuttiness of pistachio. But the flavor is quite gentle and not too intense
* Used in many different desserts in the Philippines (e.g. Halo-halo, Ube Halaya)
Macapuno - growth in coconut
* Very soft endosperm of a coconut that does not develop normally like regular coconut endosperm
* To produce the macapuno, the soft kernel of a young coconut is first grated into strips. It is then mixed with white sugar and a small amount of water. The concoc- tion is allowed to simmer in a pan until it turns into syrup and tasted for quality. When sufficiently cooled, it is then bottled into a delicious, and syrupy sweet-tasting macapuno.
* Mutant of a coconut
Jackfruit - In the Philippines, jackfruit is called langka in Filipino and nangkà in Cebuano.
The unripe fruit is usually cooked in coconut milk and is eaten as a viand together with rice. The ripe fruit is often an ingredient in local desserts such as halo-halo and the Filipino turon. The ripe fruit, besides also being eatenraw as it is, is also preserved by storing in syrup or by drying. The seeds are also boiled before being eaten.
* Native to southwest India; cultivated 3000-6000 years ago
* The fruit’s skin is very rough and jagged
* Brownish green on the outside; yellow on the inside when ripe
* Texture when eaten is similar to pulled pork
* Used for a variety of food; could be cuisine or dessert
