EKSISTENSI PINDIK SEBAGAI KUE TRADISIONAL DARI KOTA PAYAKUMBUH

Abstract

This research is motivated because not much is known about the existence of pindik cakes for teenagers in the Tiakar community, as well as to introduce, describe and develop one of the traditional cakes of Payakumbuh City typical of Tiakar Payobasuang Village. The purpose of this study is to determine the existence, function and meaning of pindik cake for the community, as well as study the process of processing pindik cake. The type of research used is descriptive qualitative. With observation, interview and documentation techniques. The instrument in this study is that the researcher himself is assisted by five senses and notebooks in collecting data. The number of informants taken was 10 people, namely 3 bundo kanduang and 6 community members where 5 of them could process pindik cakes and 1 person was a well-known pindik cake home-based entrepreneur in Tiakar Payobasuang Village. Data description through data reduction, data presentation and inference. The result of this study is the existence of traditional pindik cakes in Tiakar Payobasuang Village, Payakumbuh City, where the area is the first existence of pindik cakes, the function and meaning of pindik cakes for the Tiakar people is served in traditional events such as weddings, manjapuik marapulai, circumcision rosul, Eid al-Fitr and mandoa. Where the meaning of pindik cake served is small indicates the person's calculation, while pindik cake that is made and carried large is better. Most of the people of Tiakar Payobasuang when bringing or serving pindik cakes for the traditional event by ordering and buying pindik cakes in one of the cottage industries that are quite famous in the village, namely pindik Ni Yen.