I would love to hear if there are others out there with my memory of making a funnel of bammy then filling it with gungo peas? Actually this was how my father (of blessed memory)liked it and and as soon as he sat down to eat (if that was the meal) we his children would present ourselves and surely we would be getting a funnel. Of course it seemed nicer getting it from him. I hardly think I was the only one.
I believe you are referring to the Bammy Bread. I remember the flat bammy being baked and then put on the roof to get that shape i.e. of the zinc. I was born in the generation after that - meaning I didn't really like the bammy bread (too hard). I rather a hot bammy just coming off the iron. Even coffee and bammy I never liked. It was a good invention though!
I remember taking the flesh of the roasted terbot (terbit in TB, trigger fish in Florida) and, after sprinkling the obligatory lime and salt, rolling it up inside a fresh bammy. Mmmmmmm!
Yea, Ma Vie bammy was the best back then. And the turbot was fresh caught, no ice.
Isn't it interesting that back in the day we could all eat without buying anything at the store? Except for the salt of course. Cassava, gungu and assorted beans/peas, limes, whatever we needed was grown right there in the yard or obtained from neighbors. And fish...it was unheard of for anyone in the district to buy fish.
MMMMMMMM,MAMA, Tasty, tasty, I did love a tasty peace of pork wraped in fresh baked bammy mmmmmm YAMIE, YAMIE, GOOD old days man.
I did have all of the above, but did no one else had it with the gungo peas?
Bammy dip inna sista Madesta (Winford Lewis mother) gungo peas soup. Nutten nuh sweet so.
Bammy dip inna sista Madesta (Winford Lewis mother) gungo peas soup. Nutten nuh sweet so.
Yes, Oldtimer # 1, gungo peas wrapped in a bammy funnel was a common thing in Treasure Beach. Many of us had it regularly. It was great!
So, you are not alone!
its almost that time of year already when everyone a talk bout sorrel and gungo peas for christmas.
Yes, Oldtimer # 1, gungo peas wrapped in a bammy funnel was a common thing in Treasure Beach. Many of us had it regularly. It was great!
So, you are not alone!
This is a bammy quiz. When your mother bakes her bammy, what's the first bammy called? It's ususally the tester and used as a funnel as well.
Tatchry is the answer.
Correct answer. I have sweet memories too.
A bammy quiz, what was the name of that round thing used to shape the bammy round?
That's bammy hoop!
Does anyone know if they have invented a new way of pressing the cassava or are they still putting it in the cotocoo and putting weight on top of it? I am aware that it can be wrung out in a clean white cloth,but if you are doing a large amount of cassava this method would not be practical.I guess they are still beating the flour in the old time morter as well.Which leads me to wonder if any of the younger generation has learnt the skill of making morters (malta).
If we don't have a lathe Pedro, how would we proceed?
Lignum, cogwood, red bullet and rock stone mahogany are some of the tough woods that used to be used by the old tun-lay men.
They were the experts in using the great wheel lathe spun by an apprectice. Tun-lay=turn & lathe. The Holness family at Spur Tree were supposed to have had such a lathe. They made Windsor chairs. I suppose they made 'malta's' too.
I saw bammie press and cotocoo being used up Top Hill about fifteen years ago.
Is there a history of making anything like cassareep? This is the boiled down cassava juice free of poison which was the base of the original Taino pepper pot. The seeds of the callaloo/amaranth were used as well as the leaves. It is the seeds that have high quality protein etc.
I think catacoo is the basket the women take to the market to buy their provision and for pressing the cassava it is called cassava basket that is how i remembered .
Thanks Earthling.I was not sure about the name but I do know that my grandfather had a thatch bag that he would take with him when he went fishing and he called it his cotocoo.This was used for taking his 'brekfus'.