Doukona recipe?? clue?

[Kate Oneschuk]

Hi --
I recently read Jamaica Kincaid's story "Girl" and realized I
had no clue what doukona is. Kincaid refers to dasheen, pepper pot,
okra and doukona in the piece.
Is doukona a fruit/vegetable? Is it a dish? I can't seem to
find it in cookbooks or dictionaries. If anyone has a recipe for
doukona, a pepper pot or something using dasheen, I'd really love to
bring it in for my students. I hope someone can help. Thank you.
-- Kate kone...@ix.netcom.com
--
Kate Oneschuk
The truth is out there ... now if I can just get my freshmen to footnote it...

[David R Jones]

Duckanoo, duckna, and Doukona, phonetically different but the same thing. It is a dish from the
Leeward Islands, (don't worry about the PC appellation) I think the Bajans like myself make a
similar dish called Conkies. The ingredients are about the same but here is the Duckna recipe
according to Rita G Springer's "Caribbean Cookbook"

1.5 cups grated Sweet potato** 0.5 teaspoons of grated nutmeg
(not the yankee version)
1 small grated coconut 4 tablespoons margarine or oil (olive is good)
0.75 cups of sugar (to taste) 0.5 cups of flour
1 teaspoon of vanilla essence milk to mix
0.5 teaspoon salt banana leaves or plantain leaves

Mix together all the ingredients adding milk last to make batter of dropping consistency. Put
about 2 tablespoons of the mixture on a piece of steamed banana leaf. Fold and tie securely.
Steam for 30 minutes.

** Cornmeal may be used instead of potato

I don't usually make these I have some Vincie friends who make them. I trade with conkies or
pudding and souse.

Dave Another Bajan

[Pierre Vital]

Thanks for posting this David.

I sent a copy of it to The Caribbean Connection Recipe Archives,
URL"http://affect.org/~stuart/carib/recipes.shtml".

Pierre Vital.

[Yardie94]

I was amazed to find on a trip to Ghana that the same food, name recipe
and all were part of the Ghanain culture. Then it became rather obvious
as to why. There are quite a few words in the Jamaican patois that are
intact from Ghana and wet Africa in general. All that is not so
surprising anymore but still as remarkable as when I "discovered" these
items.

Yardie94

[AndrewV]

yard...@aol.com (Yardie94) wrote:

>Yardie94

Well tell us what they are man.

posted/mailed

Cheers,

[dubna...@gmail.com]

On Saturday, March 16, 1996 3:00:00 AM UTC-5, David R Jones wrote:
> Duckanoo, duckna, and Doukona, phonetically different but the same thing. It is a dish from the
> Leeward Islands, (don't worry about the PC appellation) I think the Bajans like myself make a
> similar dish called Conkies. The ingredients are about the same but here is the Duckna recipe
> according to Rita G Springer's "Caribbean Cookbook"
>
> 1.5 cups grated Sweet potato** 0.5 teaspoons of grated nutmeg
> (not the yankee version)
> 1 small grated coconut 4 tablespoons margarine or oil (olive is good)
> 0.75 cups of sugar (to taste) 0.5 cups of flour
> 1 teaspoon of vanilla essence milk to mix
> 0.5 teaspoon salt banana leaves or plantain leaves
>
> Mix together all the ingredients adding milk last to make batter of dropping consistency. Put
> about 2 tablespoons of the mixture on a piece of steamed banana leaf. Fold and tie securely.
> Steam for 30 minutes.
>
> ** Cornmeal may be used instead of potato
>
> I don't usually make these I have some Vincie friends who make them. I trade with conkies or
> pudding and souse.
>
> Dave Another Bajan

I ate this as a kid in Saint Vincent W.I. I believe that green bananas were in the recipe also.