Duckanoo
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Duckanoo is a noun meaning A Caribbean dessert made with sweet potato, coconut, spices and brown sugar, all tied up in a banana leaf.
Meaning
A Caribbean dessert made with sweet potato, coconut, spices and brown sugar, all tied up in a banana leaf.
Example Sentences
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.
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.
Word Forms
- duckanoos
- duckano
- duckoono
- duckunoo
- ducunu
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include gungude, coconana, bananacue, cutacoo, salara, pisang.
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