Bahamas Bread Recipes

BAHAMIAN JOHNNY BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees and grease an 11x15 baking pan and set aside.
• In a mixing bowl, sift together the flour and baking powder and then add the sugar and salt. With your fingers, gently knead in the stick of butter until well incorporated in the mixture. Add in the eggs, vegetable oil, milk and water and mix well with a spoon until the texture of your mixture is between that of a bread dough and the batter of a cake mix, adding more water if necessary.
• Pour mixture into greased pan and bake for 30mins. Brush the melted butter over the top and continue to bake for another 15 mins or until golden brown and butter knife comes out clean from the middle.
• Cut in squares and serve warm with butter or jam.

BAHAMAS - COCONUT BIMINI BREAD

Steps:

• 1. In the mixing bowl of bread machine add all ingredients in order given. Set on dough cycle (just mixing and rising). The dough cycle usually lasts about 1 1/2 hours.
• 2. Or... alternatively, add all ingredients to a large bowl and knead together until a smooth dough forms. Add extra flour if necessary. Cover and let rise in a warm place for about 1 1/2 hours.
• 3. When dough cycle is complete, or dough is approximately doubled in size, remove dough and place in oiled baking pans. You can use a Pullman pan or two bread pans.
• 4. Let dough rise in baking pans for 30 minutes.
• 5. Preheat oven to 350F.
• 6. Slash the top with a sharp knife and then bake for 35 minutes or until browned on top and cooked through.

BAHAMAS BREAD

Steps:

• Mix all the ingredients together and knead for thirty to forty seconds.
• Let rise (about forty minutes) and knock down and knead for thirty seconds.
• Repeat.
• (Or let the bread machine do all the kneading and timing for you and go beach combing until it's time to cook the dough!) Allow final rise in a bread pan, about forty minutes, and preheat oven to 425 f.
• Place in oven and decrease temperature to 350 f.
• Bake for thirty minutes.

BAHAMIAN BREAD PUDDING

Steps:

• 1. Soak bread in just enough water to soften bread. Let stand until soft; drain. Using hands, squeeze water out of bread; mix thoroughly.
• 2. In a small bowl, mix together butter, sugar, egg, vanilla & milk; cream together until blended.
• 3. Combine the 2 mixtures & add raisins. Turn into a 7 1/2 x 11 1/2 x 2 1/2" baking pan. Bake 1 hour and 45 minutes at 350° or until knife inserted in center comes out clean.
• 4. This can be eaten plain or with a mound of whipped cream or whipped topping.