Poe Atdutarre is another sort made of the Bread Fruit before it gets too ripe — which being Baked & the Core & rind taken away (as for any other use it is) it is Mixed with Juice squeesed from Hard Cocoa Nuts which is White & thick as Cream and being Wrappd in Plantain leaves is put into the Oven and Baked again. Poe Tarro is Made by grating the Tarrow down on a rough stone and mixing it with some of its own young leaves, & sweet herbs, & the Juice of the ripe Cocoa Nut before discribed.

Poe Peea is made in the same manner by mixing the Juice of the Cocoa Nut as before, the Nut being grated as for oil & the Juice wrung out with the Mo’oo which serves as a Strainer on all occasions — this being mixed in a Tray they throw in some Hot Stones which hardens it in the same manner as batter is hardened in a frying pan, but if this is eaten in large quantities it Causes a giddiness in the head from some time after, tho it has no bad effect attending it. Another Method of Dressing the Peea and which takes off the cause of the Giddiness is by mixing the Peea & the Grated Nut together with Water and baking them in the Oven & when done this way its taste and Appearance is not unlike a Yeast Dumplin but something sweeter.

Tooparroo or Teaparroo is an Excellent pudding made of Tarro (or Bread fruit). Ripe Plantains & Cocoa Nuts Grated & Squeesed & wrung out as before, the whole being strained through the Mooo (or Fibers of the Stem of the Cyprus Grass) to take the strings of the Plantains from it, and being baked in leaves is as good as a Custard, the Juice of the Cocoa Nut being Mixd with some of the Milk answers the purpose of Milk and Butter, the Milk being tart takes off the luscious sweetness of the Plantains and gives the whole a pleasant taste.

As they make this in large quantitys they make the leaves of the Plantain tough to contain it by searing them over the Fire; and tying up 5 or 6 quarts in a bundle, put it in the oven where it remains all night, and being taken out is put by for Use; it will keep for several weeks.

As they seldom have plantains sufficiently ripe for this purpose they gether them a few days beforehand and bury them in the Earth (with some ripe Palm Nuts which gives them a fine Flavour) putting Grass all round them to keep the dirt from them — and in this Manner they ripen all their Fruit when they Have Not

Indigenous Histories