The Story of Youth and the Apam

In ancient times there was once a young Acehnese who was eager to know the fate of the people in the grave, especially about the questions posed by the angels Munkar and Nankir and punishment if unable to answer their questions. Later, the young man pretended to be dead and buried alive. After his body was buried, then came the two angels and asked questions about religion and charity. Unable to answer as well as his practice is very little then the angels start hitting him with flaming whips. However, the blows did not hit him, because there was something he could not see clearly in the dark and had a moonlike shape as if protecting him from an angel's blow.

After trying hard, he managed to get out of the narrow tomb and immediately went home to meet his family. What a surprise when all the family members saw him live again. Narrated his purpose to pretend to die and his experience when visited by angels. He wondered what was the cause that helped him from angel fire, a moon shaped shield. However, by the time he returns home, the family he left behind is making a cake for the feast, then rest assured he is a round cake that is shaped like a moon that shields from an angel's blow.

Most of the Acehnese belief that the cake of apam has a good effect on the fate of family members who have died. The young man's story became the origin of the Acehnese people making the cake and distributing it as a thorn in the month of Rajab every year Hijriah, for the sake of their ancestors and family members who have died. These habits, generally carried out by the people of Aceh, although recently reduced. Every house, on one of the days of Rajab, people make famous cakes of rice flour and coconut milk, split round shape and brought to meunasah or mosque as a feast. Sometimes as many as 100 pieces of cake apam stacked on a tray and sauce almost a bucket called kuah tuhè consisting of coconut milk, sugar and eggs shaken.