Oslobanons in a ‘battle’

        Aside from bringing out the best places and leisure in Oslob, Oslobanons have introduced to us one of their delicacies, podrida, through a cooking competition marked as “Sangka sa Kaha” on October 6, 2013 which was hosted by Cebu Parklane International Hotel. 

A 65 year-old Oslobanon, Erlinda Butron, won the cooking competition. She cooked two flavors of podrida: with raisin and with grated coconut meat or Bukayo. She used a PVC pipe as her rolling pin, plywood as her pastry board and wooded oven (hurnuhan) to make her podrida possible. 

“Dalaga pa ako sukad nagsugod ko og luto ani.. Dugay-dugay na dyud ko nagsige og himo ani kay daghan man pud mu-order ani labi na kung pista.. (I started cooking podrida since I was a teenager.. it has been a long time since I’m making this because I have a lot of orders especially fiesta)” said Butron. 

When the competition started she forgot her molding materials but still finished the podrida on time.  

“The dough is perfectly baked that is why the result is perfectly chewy center with slightly crispy edges…. The first time we taste it, we already know that her podrida will win the contest..” said the judges to METROCEBUNEWS.

Podridas is look-a-like cookies but it is sandwich of grated coconut meat, raisins or pineapple chunks. It taste like cookies but it vary on the flavor of the dough. The savory of podrida will make the people wanted it. The grated coconut meat on podrida is the classic podrida of Oslob. 

The ingredients of podridas are the following: Flour, baking powder, grated coconut meat, raisins or pineapple chunks, margarine, pork fat and egg yolks. 

Erlinda also caters torta and rosquillos by orders. It is not her main job but she is a barangay health worker in Poblacion, Oslob. 

The Sangka sa Kaha was organized inorder to feature different delicacies of the provinces of Cebu. And, this was their fourth-legged which highlighted podrida as Oslob’s delicacy.