REMINISE COCONUT BREAD WITH BUBU SHIELA My granma was very good in baking, i love the coconut bread she use to bake in old cut out sunshine milk tins back in the days on Kwato, i would look for coconuts, chop firewood then scrape the coconuts, while she prepares the dough - she would mix the dough with all necessary ingredients pouring in the coconut cream after its been squeezed into a jar, then she would let the mixture covered for about an hour or two to rise in a huge dish covered with tea towels made out of flour bags (back in the days flour bags were made out of fabrics). after the mixture rises, she would spread dry flour on the laminated table top and pour out the mixture adding dry flour as she pound on the dough... i would sit there and watch her wrinkled hands with visible veins covered with dry floor disapear into the dough turning and mashing the dough like a slack volley ball or ballon, after that she would tell me to grease the bakin tins with margarin butter while she cuts a handful of the dough and spreads them into the greased tins. i would the chop firewood and pre-heat the oven made out of 44gallon drum while we wait for the dough to raise in the baking tins. she would from time to time open the oven and feel the heat and instruct me to put more firewood or remove some. with her experienced eye she tells me when to put the tins into the hot oven, sweating with my face all red from the heat she would laughingly joke "Jakobo the ginger bread man" :-D once all the baking tins are in we would wait the agonising wait, to me the smell of fresh baked coconut bread coming out of the oven was the best thing that could ever happen. i would be the first one to make fire and put up the kettle ready for afternoon tea :-D once the coconut bread were baked she would pull out the tins meticulously with her tea towels made out of flour bags and place them on a rack to cool abit before she can remove the bread from the tins. awww how i loved the part when the bread is cooled enough and she finaly says passing the milk tin cylinderical shape bread while saying "Jakobo nimam eu deuli na hage esega ta tom to ta tea maena tahe lau ita" (wash your hands and cut this up to try it with tea), with the bread knife i would slice the bread into long flat slices and add butter and homemade jam made out of marmalad... watching the butter melt into the bread and topping with jam is a feeling you cant beat... then the sensation you get from the first bite makes your mouth water only to wash it down with tea... :-)
Posted on: Sun, 25 Aug 2013 02:10:51 +0000
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