Month: August 2010

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Ingredients:

1 lb sweet potato, grated
1 cup flour1 cup evaporated milk
2 cups coconut milk (canned, mixed from powder, or squeezed from the freshly grated coconut)
1 1/4 cups brown sugar
1 tsp ginger1 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp vanilla
1/2 tsp nutmeg
1 cup grated coconut
1 cup raisins (optional)
2 tbsp margarine

Preparation:

1. Combine sweet potato with milk, sugar, flour and spices. Mix well.
2. Add raisins, coconut and margarine. Mix thoroughly and taste for sweetness.
3. Add more sugar to taste. Pour into a greased baking tin and bake at 370F for approximately 1 hour, or until centre is set.

Sweet potato pone can be served hot, cold, or at room temperature.

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Ingredients

300 gms fresh, peeled ginger (about 2 ½ cups if shredded or sliced)
2 litres boiling water (about 8 1/2 cups)
2 tsp cream of tartar6 cups sugar
2 limes
½ packet yeast

Preparation:

1. Peel the limes thinly and squeeze out the juice.
2. Crush the ginger and place all in a big earthenware jar with the cream of tartar.
3. Pour the boiling water over it. When lukewarm, lay the yeast on a slice of toast and lay it on top of the brew.

Leave to ferment for 12 hours then strain and bottle. Keep 3 to 4 days.

Makes 2 litres (slightly more than 2 quarts)

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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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