How To Make Potato Pudding

Potato Pudding

Sweet Potato Pudding is a favorite Sunday desert of Jamaicans and is fondly know as ""hell a top, hell a bottom and hallelujah in the middle'

Ingredients:

• 4 cups sweet potatoes
• 1 can coconut mIlk
• 4 cups water
• 1/4 cups margarine, melted
• 2 1/4 cups brown sugar
• 1 cup raisins, soaked
• 2 teaspoons vanilla essence
• 1/2 cup flour
• 1 1/2 cups cornmeal
• 2 teaspoons nutmeg
• 2 teaspoons cinnamon powder
• 1 teaspoon lime rind, grated
• 1 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 2 tablespoons lime juice
• 2 tablespoons white rum

Directions:

1. Peel and grate sweet potatoes.
2.  Pre-heat oven to 180°C (350°F).
3. Combine Coconut Milk, water, Margarine, sugar, raisins and vanilla, and stir.
4. Mix together flour, cornmeal, nutmeg, cinnamon, lime rind and salt; set aside.
5. Empty flour mixture into the grated potatoes. 
6. Gradually add the combined liquid and stir to remove lumps.
7. Pour mixture into a well greased baking pan and bake for approximately 2 hours.
8. To Serve:
   Allow pudding to cool; then combine lime juice with rum and sprinkle over pudding.