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Traditional Carribean Bread

Delicious with Soups and Dinner Mains Traditional Carribean Bread

Ingredients:

8 cups all purpose flour

3 1/2 cup water

2 tablespoon yeast

1/2 cup brown sugar or tapa de dulce, grind

1/2 cup lard

2 tablespoon vanilla

1/4 tablespoon cinnamon, grind

1/4 teaspoon nutmeg, grind

1/2 cup candy fruits

1/2 cup raisins

Directions

Combine yeast with 2 cups warm water in a bowl. Add 2 ½

cups flour and mix. Let it stand for three hours.

Place grinded tapa de dulce in a saucepan. Add 1 ½ cups

water. Bring it to boil. Boil until the tapa de dulce is

completely dissolved.

Pour tapa de dulce liquid into a bowl. Add the

flour-yeast mix, 5 ½ cup flour, lard, vanilla, cinnamon,

nutmeg, candy fruits, and raisins. Mix until smooth.

Cut the dough into three-equaled pieces. Form three

rolls. Save a little dough to decorate cake and cut it in

thin pieces. Decorate rolls forming small figures with

thin pieces of dough.

Bake for 30 minutes. Transfer to a rack to cook on a pan

for 10 minutes, then invert onto the rack. Transfer the

cake to a serving plate, turn right side up and let cool

completely.