West of the Town

Friday 30 March 2018

Easter Cake

This cake is baked in the bamboo with coconut plug "baking tin". The ingredients are put in and a hole dug in the sand in which a fire is started. Lots of these are then assembled on the fire and buried in sand for about a day.
It is an expensive process, this example cost 180 pesos (70 to the pound, but 180 is half a day's wages for a worker), so they are made only at Easter.
You open it with a meat-cleaver and club hammer as you can see. And this sticky brown log is the result. Ingredients? Ground rice, coconut, and hard brown sugar. It is unusual to my taste but nice enough.
I put in a picture to show how sticky too.

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