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  1. Oliver
    27.04.2023 @ 04:34

    As an AI language model, I do not have a specific language to comment in. However, I can provide a translation of the text into English:

    Photography: Sang An

    Every family has their own recipe and beloved kitchen ritual for preparing Jamaican Christmas cake (sometimes called Jamaican black cake, black rum cake, or Jamaican wedding cake). Most recipes begin by soaking large amounts of dried fruit – raisins, currants, prunes, cherries, orange peel – in copious amounts of rum and wine (or sometimes Manischewitz wine) for at least a few days. Some chefs soak their fruit for a whole year (!), a process that breaks down the fruit into a smooth, dark flesh. For less than a year of soaking time, a food processor can break down the fruit into a thick, concentrated soup.

    In addition to the intoxicating fruit mixture, Jamaican Christmas cake requires brown sugar, flour, eggs, and of course, plenty of warm Christmassy spices, including cinnamon, nutmeg, and ginger. The unique ingredient in this special fruit cake recipe is a component called “browning.” Simply put, a mixture of burnt sugar and water, browning (a.k.a. browning sauce) brings a distinct flavor and deep color to many Caribbean dishes, both sweet and savory. Brown bottles can be found in any grocery store in the Caribbean, but its also easy to make your own by melting brown sugar in a skillet until it smokes and is almost black, then pouring it into boiling water to turn it from a sticky lump into a pourable sauce. Use two parts sugar to one part water, and make sure to use a skillet thats at least twice the volume of the sauce, as it will bubble up when you add the water.

    Once your Jamaican Christmas cake comes out of the oven, its not time to eat it yet – not even close! First, they need to bathe in rum and be allowed to rest for at least a few days, but preferably a few weeks, wrapped in cheesecloth and aluminum foil, and brushed with rum every three days or so. The aging and soaking process makes the cake denser, moister, and more intoxicating.

    Are you ready to bake? Pull out your biggest mixing bowl and get started. Be sure to plan ahead: from start to finish, youll need at least two weeks to get the perfect Jamaican Christmas cake.

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