Bajan Sweet Bread
A Barbados snack. Ready in about 1 hour 25 minutes. Difficulty: medium.
- 25 minPrep (about)
- 1 hrCook (about)
- 1 hr 25 minTotal time
- 4Servings
- MediumDifficulty
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Join the waitlist Not nowIngredients
- 2 ½ cups coconut
- ½ cup melted butter
- 4 cups flour
- 1 tbsp shortening
- 1 tbsp baking powder
- ¾ cup sugar
- 1 cup raisins
- 1 egg
- 1 ¼ cups evaporated milk
- 1 tsp almond essence
Spices & seasonings (1): salt
- 1 tsp salt
How to make it
Steps in our own plain words.
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Add salt, baking powder and all the flour to a large mixing bowl.
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Melt the butter in a pot.
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Mix your coconut plus most of your sugar in another bowl – leave back to cover the melted butter, vanilla essence, almond essence, milk, egg, raisins and loaves later.
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Mix fully until you have a creamy paste.
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Add this to the bowl with salt, baking powder and the flour.
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Mix until you form a stiff dough.
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Split it between the baking tins.
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Boil the water.
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Mix two tablespoons of sugar using some hot water plus brush the top of each loaf.
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Cook in the oven in your center of the oven for 1 hour.
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Leave to cool in tins before serving.
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Slice.
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Serve with a fresh pot of tea.
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Join the waitlistRecipe from TheMealDB, adapted from the original. Steps rewritten in our own words. Times are estimates.