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- cabbage
- cabbage palm
- Cable Beach
- caboose
- caca
- Caicos
- cake
- calaboose, calaboosh
- calalu, callalou
- call
- calm head
- camallamee
- camally
- camp
- can
- can cream, cream
- can lamp
- can't
- cancer-tree, cancer-bush, cancer-plant
- candle bush, candle tree
- candle-berry
- cane grass
- cane tea
- canelly
- canep
- canes
- canimo
- cankerberry
- cap
- capable
- caper tree
- capnit
- capoonkle, kerpunkle
- capsize
- car-garage
- caracas
- card
- care, caar, cah
- care: ain' care
- careful
- carl
- carrion crow, carryin' crow, carrin' crow
- carry
- cascate
- case: get (or jump) on someone's case
- cashia
- cassada
- cassava bark
- cassava bread
- cassava head
- cassava pie, cassava crust
- cassava stick
- cassava trash
- cassava wood, cassada wood
- cat
- cat boil
- Cat Island
- cat mint
- cat('s) paw
- cat-bird
- cat-eyes
- cat-gut(s)
- cat-tongue
- cat-wash
- catacoo
- catajean
- catchers
- catchers' kisses
- catnip
- catoonkle
- cattles
- catty-corner
- cave earth, cave dirt
- cave-bat
- cave-hole
- cay, key
- caya
- cedar
- ceement
- ceiling
- Celia cassava
- centipee
- cerasee
- chack
- chain moray
- chain of love
- chairman
- chalk: that's chalk
- chamber pot
- chance
- chance: take chance for chance
- chancilla
- chaney vine
- change
- change on somebody
- chap
- charcoal
- Charles Town
- chat-chat
- chatty
- chaw
- cheap
- Cheap John Stirrup
- check (1)
- check (2) or cheque
- checkerboard
- chee-chee
- cheek somebody up
- cheeks
- cheers
- cheese bush
- chenille bug
- cherry
- chest-bone
- chew-bird
- chew-tobacco
- chewstick, chawstick
- chich or chinch up
- chick-chick
- chick-of-the-village
- chickchanny, chickcharney
- chicken fight
- chicken gizzard
- chicken peas
- chicken toe
- chicken-toe potato
- chickereely
- chiefer
- child
- child, please!
- children
- chillun, chi'ren
- chilly bin
- chim-chim
- chime
- chimley, chimlay
- chimmy, chimper
- chin-chin
- china closet
- chinas
- chinchary
- chinchy
- Chine
- Chinee shop
- Chinee, Chiny
- Chinese roach
- chinker
- chinny briar, chinny bush
- chip-chip
- chirone
- chiss
- chock, chack, chuck, jock
- chocolate tea
- chocolate-brown
- choosy
- chop, chap
- chow-chow
- Christ
- Christmas bush
- Christmas candlesticks
- Christmas daisy
- Christmas flower
- Christmas okra
- Christmas rose
- Christmas tree
- chuck
- chucking in the bag
- church
- churchyard rose
- Cigatoo, Ciguatea
- Cigillian
- cinnecord
- cipher
- city boy, city girl
- clad
- clampers
- clampsy
- clap somebody up
- clap your hip
- claps: the claps
- claver
- claws: a round o' claws
- clean
- clear
- clear, clare
- cleavers
- cline
- clip out
- clipso
- cloak
- clock bush
- clod, clud
- cloddy, cluddy
- clog, cloggy
- close
- cloth
- cloud, cloudy
- clower
- club
- club in
- club-stick
- clud, cluddy
- clut, clutty
- co
- coal
- coal of fire
- coal pot
- coast
- coby
- cock up
- cock-eye
- cocker-roach, cockaroach
- cockroach berry, roach berry
- cockspur prickle
- cocktail
- cocky ball
- cocky pilot
- coco plum
- coco, cocoa, coca, koka
- coco-macock
- coco-six
- cocoa tea
- cocoa-pease
- cocobey
- coconut bird
- coconut bomb
- coconut bread
- coconut bugs
- coconut cake
- coconut cream
- coconut doughby
- coconut duff
- coconut jelly
- coconut jimmy
- coconut milk
- coconut pearl-edge
- coconut rush
- coconut tart
- coconut trifle
- coconut water
- cod-pepper
- coffee-tea
- cokay
- cold
- cold
- cold in the arm, eye, hand, etc.
- collection box
- colleesion: in colleesion
- Collins Wall
- colly
- coloured
- comallomy
- combruction
- come
- come back
- come before
- comforter
- comical
- coming moon
- commandant
- commerce
- commissioner
- commonage land, common edge land, communist land
- company
- con
- concert
- concertine
- Conch
- Conch
- conch bubby
- conch fish
- conch jack
- conch-breaker
- conch-eye
- conch-killer
- conch-shell
- Conchy Joe
- coney (1), cony
- coney (2), cony
- coney(fish)
- confuddle up
- confuse
- confusion
- Congo
- Congo drum
- Congo tea
- Congo Town
- Congo worm
- Conian
- conjessy (mouth)
- conk
- Conky Joe, Conchy Joe
- conky, conchy, conchi
- conky-bine
- constructor
- consumpted
- contes
- contract time
- convenient
- conversate
- coob
- Coobians
- cooda
- cook kitchen, cooking kitchen
- cooker
- Cooking
- cool (it) out
- cool drink
- cool hutch
- cool off
- cooling board
- coontie sago, country sago
- coony
- coop
- coot
- copper
- copper-bread
- coppet
- coppice Joewood
- copple
- corb
- cork up
- corkscrew
- corkwood
- corn
- corn
- corn fish
- corn husk
- corn row
- corn soup
- corn stick
- corn yuck
- corner
- corner-boy
- corrupt
- corruption
- corunten lizard
- cotch
- cotton bird
- cotton tree
- cotton-wick
- cough bush
- could
- count
- Counter Bottom, Counter Butter
- country almond
- country marks
- country people
- country sago
- country-born
- couple
- courage
- courage bush
- courage conch
- courtening
- cousins
- cover
- cow bush, cow bean
- cow-fish
- cow-fly
- cow-grass
- cow-meat
- cow-milk
- cow-peas
- cow-tongue
- cow-wasp
- coward
- cowboy
- Crab
- crab
- crab back
- crab basket
- crab bush
- crab hawk
- crab stick
- crab-and-dough
- crab-basket plait
- Crab-catcher
- crabbening
- crabbish
- crabby
- crabfat-and-dough
- crabwood
- crack rock
- crack(ed) conch
- cracker
- cracker dust
- crackers
- crane
- crane crow
- cranky
- crawfish
- crawfisherman
- crawl, craw, kraal
- crawler
- craziness
- crazy
- crazy hill
- crease
- credit: give credit to
- creek
- creeping Charlie
- creeter, creatur
- creole
- crew
- criard
- crib
- crimlin slips
- crimp edge
- crimps
- crispy
- crispy-wood
- crocus
- crocus bag, crocus sack
- Cromanty
- Cronie Cadunta
- crook
- crop season
- crop-basket
- crop-time
- cross
- cross and cross: to go cross and cross
- cross-cut
- cross-road dirt
- cross-step
- crotch
- crow
- crow('s) broom
- crumbles
- crutchet
- cry
- cry-well
- crying
- cub
- cub
- Cuba
- cubbyu
- Cubian, Coobian
- cubie
- Cuckero, cockero
- cuckoo (bird)
- cuckoo mack-eye
- cuckoo soup
- cuckoo-rookoo
- cud
- cudgniy
- Cuffey
- cultivator
- cunny-hole
- cup
- cup grease
- cupshell
- curb
- cure-for-all
- curly-tail
- currant tree
- currency
- current
- curry
- curry-favor (for) somebody
- cursing
- curve
- curved accent: have a curved accent
- cush-cush
- Cushie
- cushy
- cuss-cuss
- custard apple
- cut
- cut
- cut breast
- cut bush
- cut down
- cut road
- cut somebody
- cut tail
- cut up with somebody
- cut your ass (or behind, hip, skin, tail)
- cut your grass
- cut-ass, cut-skin
- cut-eye
- cut-out
- cut-thatch, cutting top-palm
- cut-up
- cute
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Cooking
Traditionally, Bahamian methods of cooking were determined not only by the raw material available (see FISHING, CONCH, AGRICULTURE), but also by the means available to prepare it (see HOUSEHOLD ARTICLES). Even today, cooking is not easy on the outer islands, where stores are few and irregularly supplied by the MALL. Supplies like sugar, flour, and rice have to be shipped in, but people can grow some of their staple foods, like beans and corn. INDIAN CORN or GUINEA CORN has to be TRASHED, FANNED to remove the HUCKS, then pounded with a MAUL to make grits, HOMINY, PEAS AND GRITS or HOE-CAKE. Rice can be eaten SO SO as BAREFOOT RICE, or added to other ingredients to make PEAS AND RICE, RICE BELOW, HOPPING JOHN, or FIRE ENGINE. In any case rice must be SOAKED so the grains will be ONE ONE, nobody likes SOBBY RICE, but most people love BUN-BUN (also called POTCAKE or SWINGE). Flour can be prepared many ways; the simplest is FLOUR PAP (or GRIVEL or DIPNER) or FLOUR TEA (BOUFOO). Quick breads include JOHNNY CAKE, MOON BREAD, BREAD BISCUITS (also called FLOUR BISCUITS), PANNY-CAKES or GRIDDLE CAKES, and an entire range of DOUGH BOYS (Or DOBIES or DOUGHS) including DROPLETS, DROPPERS, SINKERS, SLIDERS, SLIPPERIES and STICK-TO-THE-RIBS. Without leavening, bread will be DUMB; to make 'LIGHT-BREAD or RISE BREAD, one must use the FLESHMAN or an EAS' CAKE from a previous batch. One must put the dough to LIGHT before it can be LOAFED OFF and allowed to SPONGE again before baking.
The RELISH of a meal may just be FLAVOURING MEAT or a more substantial portion of meat that might be ROASTED, BAKED, DUNNED, BROILED or STEWED DOWN with POT GRAVY and MIX HERBS. Favorite main dishes also include BOIL FISH, STEW FISH, and STEAM FISH, as well as CRAB-AND-DOUGH and SOUSE. Dessert may be a FLOUR CAKE with ICENING or some other BAKE-THING such as BAKER'S CAKE, ROUND-THE-WORLD, SWEET-POTATO PONE, GUAVA DUFF, or one of the many coconut wonders: COCONUT BOMB, COCONUT CAKE, COCONUT CREAM, COCONUT DOUGHBY, COCONUT DUFF, COCONUT JIMMY, COCONUT RUSH, COCONUT TART, or COCONUT TRIFLE. Candies include TUFFY, JAW-BONE BREAKERS, BENNY CAKE, and GRANNY CAKE (or PEANUT CAKE). Beyond the many ice creams made from tropical fruits and STIFFEREEN, ices include BAGGY, CUP, and ICICLE. Beverages may be nourishing drinks like BANANA WATER or FISH TEA; hot drinks like COFFEE TEA, GREEN TEA (or LIPTON TEA), COCOA TEA or CHOCOLATE TEA, CANE TEA or PEAR-LEAF TEA or SPICE TEA; COOL DRINKS linke JEBIM or SWITCHER. Drinks like GIN-AND-COCONUT-WATER, MALAFEE or TAFFIA can leave one HALF-HOT, HOT, or totally PIFLICATED.
Tags: Encyclopedia definition, food, noun
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Author: Holm and Shilling, DBE, 1982
Revision: 1.6
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