Sweet Bread

In Trinidad, this is bread that is sweet.

It is a really good and delicious part of any meal. I can't have it because it's really CARBY, but when I was younger I used to eat it a lot.

Nen an' em (various aunts and great aunts, mothers, friends) would go visiting and invariably sweet breads would be exchanged or brought out as part of the refreshment platter.

At least in my family it seemed as if that was the way it was...

So much so, that my mum had a running joke that she told us when we were little. The joke even had a tittle "Ma, Nen bring ah sweetbread".

I can't repeat the joke here but it's funny if you are a trini :)

Well the sweetbreads were great regardless of who brought them, but ingredients seem to vary.

With or without coconut, raisins or those 'fruits' that you see in deplorable fruitcakes sold in the US.

These days its seems that the 'fruits' are taking over.

If I still indulged in carbs a lot, I would eat the bread after I scraped off the 'fruit'

The pic shows one of the breads with the incriminating 'fruit'

Sweet breads can be eaten plain, with jam, butter, peanut butter or whatever you want :)