Re: [Goanet] Authentic Goan Caju Feni

2010-11-16 Thread Mervyn Lobo
Cecil Pinto wrote: > Of the four I can vouch for Lobo Farms Special. Rs. 150/- to Rs. > 170/-. A consistently superb triple distill. > Haldankar's Premium Rs. 170/- to Rs. 180/- is also a fairly ok Feni. > Haldankar's also make the Cajulana brand which has a nice Premium > variety, but Haldanker's

[Goanet] Authentic Goan Caju Feni

2010-11-16 Thread Cecil Pinto
JoeGoaUk wrote: Good quality is always expensive. Cecil responds: Agreed. If you're paying less than Rs. 100/- for a bottle don't expect anything other than 'pochok', as Joe puts it! But also understand that expensive does not necessarily mean good quality. Often you're paying for a fancy bottle o

[Goanet] Authentic Goan Caju Feni

2010-11-15 Thread JoeGoaUk
[Goanet] Authentic Goan Caju Feni   There are different types of cahew fenni brands in the market, Most of them ar ‘pochok’  mild or adulterated or duplicate A bottle of cahew fenni price ranges from Just Rs. 45 to Rs.200. Good quality is always expensive. There are some brand which clearly

Re: [Goanet] Authentic Goan Caju Feni

2010-11-14 Thread Domnic Fernandes
Your method to purchase caju fenni is based on money power - ours is a simple, ganvtti (local) method, which does not involve any money and I think we, the locals, know better who the best producers are because we don't order the fenni to be brought home - we go to the source "bhatti" (distille

[Goanet] Authentic Goan Caju Feni

2010-11-13 Thread Freddy Fernandes
I response to: Message: 1 Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 10:22:34 + (GMT) From: JoeGoaUk joego...@yahoo.co.uk Thanks JoeUK, As for the question you asked, Mollop is the first distill of the Cashew juice, the boiled juice is "goddo", I am not sure if it's given to the pigs, as mostly the Cash

Re: [Goanet] Authentic Goan Caju Feni

2010-11-12 Thread Dr . Ferdinando dos Reis Falcão
I am told that Caju Feni is the third distill. I may have got the wrong information. I was given to understand that the first distill is 'urraka' the second distill is what is called in Bardez: 'cazulo'; and the third distill is 'Feni'. Could someone enlighten me what this "cazulo" is? Being f

Re: [Goanet] Authentic Goan Caju Feni

2010-11-12 Thread Mervyn Lobo
Domnic Fernandes wrote: > Another way to find out if caju fenni is genuine: > Pour caju fenni in a kals (cup) and dip one of your fingers in it. Light a > match stick and apply it to the finger. If the fenni is genuine, your finger > catches fire instantly; if it doesn't, then you know it's of i

Re: [Goanet] Authentic Goan Caju Feni

2010-11-12 Thread Domnic Fernandes
Another way to find out if caju fenni is genuine: Pour caju fenni in a kals (cup) and dip one of your fingers in it. Light a match stick and apply it to the finger. If the fenni is genuine, your finger catches fire instantly; if it doesn't, then you know it's of inferior quality. Cheer

Re: [Goanet] Authentic Goan Caju Feni

2010-11-11 Thread Gabriel de Figueiredo
GoaUk > To: goa...@goanet.org > Sent: Thu, 11 November, 2010 9:22:34 PM > Subject: [Goanet] Authentic Goan Caju Feni > >> As for the Grav (I thought it was grao), my father had it (Alcohol meter) >  imported one.  _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_

[Goanet] Authentic Goan Caju Feni

2010-11-11 Thread Cecil Pinto
Freddy Fernandes wrote: That's "cashew Feni". Log has to be maintained of the number of units produced, in Goa wholesale liquor is sold in "colxe", one "colxo" being 18 bottles, each bottle being 750 ml, so I colxo will be 13500 ml, 13.5 liters. Cecil Pinto responds: A more plausible and detailed

[Goanet] Authentic Goan Caju Feni

2010-11-11 Thread JoeGoaUk
[Goanet] Authentic Goan Caju Feni   Thanks, very well explained.   The residua/waste caju juice  was called Mollop ? or Goddo (for pigs ??) (may be it is true in case of Toddy only)   Other terms I remember.. Konnomb (konnbikodde) is the place where the juice is extracted (One needs excise license

Re: [Goanet] Authentic Goan Caju Feni

2010-11-11 Thread norman noronha
le Mai was away, which made me tipsy. I got up the next day but Mai's medicine really worked. Cold was really gone !!! Norman Noronha Kuwait > Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 12:16:41 +0400 > From: ffernandes@emaar.ae > To: goanet@lists.goanet.org > Subject: [Goane

[Goanet] Authentic Goan Caju Feni

2010-11-11 Thread Freddy Fernandes
Mogall Goyemkaranno, Cajumcho soro mhunnlear amkam ek vodvik, tor kitle zan zannat to koso zata to ? Havem tacher ho lek bhoroila thantunt kosli-i sozmonni zai zaler or kitem-i chuklam zalear, upkar korun maka kolloun diat. This article was written before I had the health scare, found it w