The Great Vanuatu Bake Off
VulcanSpirit
Richard & Alison Brunstrom
Sat 15 Feb 2014 08:52
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I have just found this in our drafts foulder, I
think I was having trouble with the photos at the time, perhaps it censored
itself
Ali here. I was very sad to leave Vanuatu, one of
many fond memories was the cookery class at the Back To Our
Roots Festival on Ambrym.
 It started with roasting whole breadfruits on a
wood fire. Notice the men don't bother with aprons.
 The other main ingredient was coconuts,
they were prepared by first removing the
husks using a sharpened stick, then spliting them in half and the white
flesh scraped out and collected.
 Once the breadfruit was cooked, the burnt outer
layer was removed and the centres pounded together using a young
coconut (above). This was hard work and the men took it in turns ( poor
things), this process lasted about 30 mins.
 A very hot stone from the fire was placed
inside an empty coconut shell, handfulls of the shreded coconut were then
squeezed over the hot stone, this produced hot coconut cream.
 This certainly was a very lengthy process
with very hungry onlookers.
 The finishing touches, the bread fruit was rolled
out and cut into pieces and the hot coconut cream was poured over the
top.
 The end result was delicious, we were all very
hungry by then.
 Not a piece was left and the chief was left to do
the washing up. |