Yucca Root

[mountaingal]

Re: Yucca Root

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: St_Bess</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> Bitter cassava (as it is known in St. Bess) is grated and processed (put into a &quot;cutokow&quot; and pressed overnight)
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mi grananty used to put that said thing inna wan hole in the ackee tree and between poles - two a top two a bottom, weighted with some big rockstone. i guess the idea was to squeeze out what was left of the toxic juice.

i hated cassava dumplings, but boy, i tell you, nothing nicer than freshly made bammy - thin and large and warm and musky. dem thick one mi buy inna farrin store hard lakka wah, only good for frying. i've bought some frozen grated cassava mi a go try mek mi own bammy one of these days.

[Suesumba]

Re: Yucca Root

wow!! St. Bess. what a fountain of knowledge.

yeh and as Hemgee said the bammy dem sell yah is almoas like torture to eat. dem scrape di back a yu choat. aldoah mi love mi bammy dumpling dem. mi buy di cassave flour and mix it wid wheat flour ----&gt; i heart gluten.


<span style="font-style: italic">still sticking to the frozen ones</span>

[Dr.Dudd]

Re: Yucca Root

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: SueSumba</div><div class="ubbcode-body">wow!! St. Bess. what a fountain of knowledge.

yeh and as Hemgee said the bammy dem sell yah is almoas like torture to eat. dem scrape di back a yu choat. aldoah mi love mi bammy dumpling dem. mi buy di cassave flour and mix it wid wheat flour ----&gt; i heart gluten.


<span style="font-style: italic">still sticking to the frozen ones</span> </div></div> Dip th egatd bammy in milk and put it in the microwave for a few seconds. It get as soft as if it was freshly bake, then you can fry ot or eatv it just like it is. I always like it fried though. But then again I don't have to watch my weight.

[Suesumba]

Re: Yucca Root

Dr. Dudd, I do soak the bammy in milk. evaporated milk at that.

[Hush Darlin]

Re: Yucca Root

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: St_Bess</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: SueSumba</div><div class="ubbcode-body">remember: there are two types of cassava. sweet cassava which is edible and bitter cassava which is poisonous. they are very hard to tell apart.

yeh. they also call it manioc.

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They are not hard to tell apart if you know the difference. Sweet cassava leaves have a <span style="font-weight: bold">slightly purpleish color </span> and the bitter cassava leaves are <span style="font-weight: bold">solid green</span>. Bitter cassava (as it is known in St. Bess) is grated and processed (put into a &quot;cutokow&quot; and pressed overnight)and is used to make bammies and cassava flour dumplings. The juice from that is used to make starch as SsweetSsop noted above. The sweet cassava is boiled and eaten just like you would any other root vegetables. To people from the spanish speaking islands cassava is known as yucca and dasheen and/or badoo as malagna (sp). Thieves never stole cassava from people 'grung' a nite time because in the night dem could not tell the difference between the sweet or poisonous cassava.

Well done Dr. Dudd you well know how to score and peel the cassava.


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St Bess the one wha name ketch teef dat haawd fe kno de difference
a nuff people mi granny tell mi story bout how dem teef people cassava and cook and try fe eat and all dem can halla fa is dem belly caa is the ketch teef cassava dem teef

[St_Bess]

Re: Yucca Root

Sweets - In the day time it is easy to tell the difference but at night dem would have to be a damn fool fi thief cassava dats why dem call eh <span style="font-weight: bold">&quot;ketch thief&quot;. </span>Whey mi come fram nobaddy no thief cassava nat even the &quot;thiefest&quot; and poorest ones. Remember the difference is in the <span style="text-decoration: underline"><span style="font-weight: bold">leaves</span></span> - only summaddy whey ole like mi and you grannie would know the differance.