Sweet Bread (Barbados)

photo by GiddyUpGo

- Ready In:
- 1hr 15mins
- Ingredients:
- 13
- Yields:
-
2 Loaves
ingredients
- 1 tablespoon shortening
- 2 1⁄2 cups coconut
- 4 cups flour
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 3⁄4 cup sugar
- 1 cup raisins
- 1 egg, beaten
- 1 1⁄4 cups evaporated milk
- 1⁄2 cup melted butter
- 1 teaspoon almond essence
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- 1 tablespoon hot water
directions
- Grease two loaf pans with shortening and set your oven to 350 degrees.
- Mix the dry ingredients with the raisins in a large bowl.
- Add the egg, milk, butter and almond essence. Mix until you have a firm dough.
- Divide the dough in half and press down into the loaf pans.
- Mix the sugar and hot water and, using a pastry brush, brush the tops of each loaf.
- Bake for one hour, or until a toothpick comes out clean. Let cool, then remove from pans.
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I am a mother of two with another one on the way! I am married to an Englishman and we own a small business in our local area. We live in a very small town called Rough and Ready (yes there really is a place called Rough and Ready!) I am a part-time writer and full time mom. My kids were born 15 months apart and keep me so busy I barely have enough time to cook and no time at all for my other passion, horseback riding. I once had four horses but am down to two; my Arab mare Argo and old Denver. Both of them spend the vast majority of their time standing around in my back yard eating hay. I get to feed them and look at them, but until my kids are all in school (and I stop having more kids) that's about it.
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