Guyanese Baking

Specialised

A serious bakery tradition, largely British-descended and entirely Guyanese-made. BLACK CAKE — dried fruit soaked in rum and cherry brandy for months or years, with burnt-sugar browning, baked at Christmas and for weddings, and genuinely dark. PINE TART, the triangular pineapple pastry. SALARA, the roll of coconut dyed bright red. CHEESE ROLL. TENNIS ROLL. PLAIT BREAD, the pulled-apart loaf that goes with pepperpot. CASSAVA PONE. BUTTERFLAP. Custard block and fudge. ⚠ THE BAKERY IS WHERE THE COMMUNITIES MEET: black cake and garlic pork and pepperpot sit on one Christmas table.