Day: August 14, 2010

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Ingredients:

3 lb. Chicken
1 stalk scallion
2 cloves garlic (chopped)
2 cups water
1 tsp. Salt
3 regular sized carrots
1 oz. soy sauce
1 sprig. thyme (chopped)
1.5 tablespoon vegetable oil
1 medium onion (Chopped)
2 Tomatoes (diced)
½ oz lime juice
4 tablespoon ketchup

Preparation:

1. Wash the chicken in water with the lime juice.
2. Clean & cut chicken into small pieces.
3. With the exception of the oil and ketchup, combine the chicken and all the other seasonings-including soy sauce.
4. Rub all the ingredients into the chicken and allow to marinate for a few hours (even overnight, if possible).
5. Remove the tomatoes,scallion and other easily removed seasonings from the chicken and place in a bowl.
6. Heat the vegetable oil- well hot, and fry all the chicken pieces until brown.
Add all the seasonings in the same saucepan along with the tomato ketchup and carrot.
7. Add water
8. Cover and cook over medium heat until tender.

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Ingredients:

2 packets yeast (4 ½ tsp.)
1 tsp sugar
¼ cup warm water
1 medium egg shopping list
1 cup warm milk
1 tsp salt
3 ½ cups white flour
½ cup melted butter

Preparation:

1. Mix the yeast, sugar and water together. Beat the egg and stir in to the mixture. Stir in the milk and salt. Stir in 2 cups of the flour.

2. Slowly add more flour, stop when the mixture becomes stiff. Knead the dough until it is smooth about 10 minutes.

3. Transfer the dough to a clean buttered bowl. Roll the dough around the bowl until it is entirely coated in butter.

4. Cover with a damp towel for 1 hour. Divide the dough in to 10 pieces and roll each piece in to a circle, about 1/2 cm thick.

5. Brush the dough with melted butter then fold in half.

6. Preheat oven to 425 degrees F. Place folded pieces on a well greased sheet and place on the bottom rack of the oven. Bake until golden brown (this should take around 15 minutes).

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Ingredient:

½ cup shortening
1 cup light brown sugar
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons ground Jamaican cinnamon
½ teaspoon salt
1 cup buttermilk
1 cup flaked Jamaican coconut
1 cup sugar
½ teaspoon Jamaican nutmeg
Add a splash of Jamaican rum to taste

Preparation:

1. In a large mixing bowl, cream shortening and brown sugar together until light and fluffy. Beat in eggs and vanilla.

2. Combine flour, salt, 1 teaspoon Jamaican cinnamon, and salt. Add flour mixture to creamed mixture alternately with buttermilk, beginning and ending with dry ingredients; beat well after each addition.

3. Spoon Jamaican coconut cake batter into greased and floured 13x9x2-inch baking pan.

4. Combine Jamaican coconut, 1 cup sugar, 1 teaspoon Jamaican cinnamon, Jamaican nutmeg, and half-and-half. Spoon over cake batter.

5. Bake cake at 350° for 35 minutes, or until Jamaican coconut cake is done.

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Ingredients:

1 ½ c Self-rising flour
1 ½ ts Baking powder
1 ts Jamaican Spice Mix
¾ c Margarine, softened
¾ c Superfine sugar
3 Eggs
2 tb Unsweetened cocoa powder
2 tb Hot water
½ c Granulated sugar
⅔ c Water
2 Cinnamon sticks (2″)
¼ c Dark rum
2 tb Slivered almonds
6 oz Semisweet chocolate, broken in pieces
Whipped cream

Preparation:

Preheat oven to 325’F. (165’C.).

Generously grease a 5-cup fluted or plain tube pan and dust lightly with flour. Sift flour, baking powder and Mixed Spice into a bowl.

Add margarine, superfine sugar and eggs.

Blend cocoa powder with hot water and add to flour mixture. Beat well with a wooden spoon 2 minutes or 1 minute if using an electric mixer.

Turn mixture into prepared pan. Bake in preheated oven 1-1/4 hours or until well risen and cake begins to shrink from edges of pan. Carefully turn out cake onto a wire rack and cool.

Combine granulated sugar and 2/3 cup water in a saucepan. Add cinnamon and heat gently, stirring to dissolve sugar. Boil 5 minutes.

Remove from heat, add rum and discard cinnamon. Place cake on a plate. Spoon syrup over cake and let stand 2 hours.

Stud top of cake with almonds. Melt chocolate; carefully spoon over cake, spreading to give a smooth even coating. Let stand several hours. Pipe (with a pastry bag) whipped cream around bottom of cake.

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