Meaning of duckanoo | Babel Free

Definitions

A Caribbean dessert made with sweet potato, coconut, spices and brown sugar, all tied up in a banana leaf.

Examples

“The mixtures are wrapped and tied in banana leaf parcels and steamed. Names for these steamed cakes are boyo, duckoono, tie-a-leaf, and blue drawers, as the leaf stains the pudding a faint bluish color.”

“Blue drawers, also known as tie-a-leaf or dukunu, combine banana, coconut, sweet potato, and/or cornmeal in small squares, that are then wrapped in banana leaves and boiled for an hour.”

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