Legen

Indonesian food & beverages

Legen is the name of the traditional drinks which are found in the surrounding areas of Central Java and East Java, Indonesia. This drink is taken from the palm tree.

Legen of sap or material for refined sugar from sugar palm tree, palm or coconut and refreshing addition, it found some facts that can help health Legen renal function. In fact there are several types of Legen (depending on the quality of the tree) which can treat impotence diseases. But need to be careful in choosing Legen, because sometimes there is faking it, with the terms of synthetic Legen. To ensure that the original Legen usually colored like coconut but more turbid water, and somewhat thick, and sweet with no bitter taste like if you drink beverages containing saccharin.
Legen will be a refreshing drink as well as healthful when still aged 0 to 2 days. If it is later than two days, then the legend will change to a young wine that will have an alcohol content below 2%. The longer the time that passed legen vulnerable, so the more alcohol in it, which means the legend has become a heady wine.

Producing areas
This legendary city that produces legen, among others:
Pati
Rembang
Tuban
Lamongan

However, in the range of the 1990's in the area Pati and Apex beverages is starting to be hard to find, because the palm trees in this area has been felled by the locals to be sold as fuel for burning limestone or for building materials.

Origin of name
The word legend is derived from the word legi (Javanese language) which means sweet. Legen mostly made of palm tree flowers type of flower-shaped tendrils women. Tendrils of this flower is cut little by little to be tapped sap accommodated in a tube which is usually made from pieces of bamboo stems one segment. Old intercepts are usually overnight, on the afternoon of this bamboo tube (called a waveguide) is placed as a container, then in the morning already full load of the tube. One Manggar flowers usually produce about three to six tubes legend.

To reduce the sour taste, usually on the basis of guide sprinkled with a little lime water. The water is legend in the Indonesian language is called indigo. But there is also produced indigo from Manggar Manggar flowers of coconut or palm tree flower, but in particular legend is only made from palm trees. Type of palm tree are of two kinds, one flower Manggar such as coconut and produce fruit called palm fruit. The contents and fro like a soft, chewy and sweet. The only other species of trees are being shaped flowering vines and especially used for the sap is tapped into legend. Two trees of this type need each other so that pollination can take place that would later bear fruit palm trees can be planted into similar.

Indonesian food & beverages