Does anyone know a recipe for Honduran pollo guisado?
Recipes from Honduras Garifuna Backyard Oven Allspice Cinnamon Buns The recipe here, however delicious, is not the real story, it’s the baking process that is intriguing. We spent a few days in a Garifuna village (read about the Garifuna people) called Hopkins full of people beaming with ready smiles and full of pride in the richness of their culture if not their material wealth. Sarita the “Sweet Bun Lady” as she is known to everyone in town is no different. She has kept alive a baking tradition begun by her great-grandmother and when we showed up with cameras and lots of curiosity, she was only too happy to let us watch and learn. She makes a yeast dough with the standard flour, butter, sugar and eggs and flavors it with local allspice and a little cinnamon, but the true magic happens when she bakes it. The oven is a large steel barrel cut in half, and covered with a piece of corrugated roofing. The heat comes from a fire made of coconut husks and driftwood that is burned down to coa
