Ingredients
½ pt black-eye peas
4 tbsp cooking oil
¼ lb sugar
First Dough:
½ lb flour
4 tbsp cooking oil
4 tbsp sugar
Second Dough:
½ lb flour
2 oz lard
Preparation
- Boil black-eye peas until soft and sift through and fine sieve. Strain through a muslin to get all the black-eye flour.
- Fry the black-eye flour in four tablespoons oil adding four tablespoons sugar. Cook for about 20 minutes on slow heat until dry. Remove from heat and put to cool.
- First Dough: Mix flour, oil, and sugar together with a little bit of water to make a bread dough.
- Second Dough: Mix flour and lard together (do not add any water to this mixture).
- Make 15 pieces out of each dough (30 pieces in all).
- Fill second dough into first dough. Roll and fold into a square.
- Roll again and fill with black-eye.
- Baste with egg or milk and bake 10 to 15 minutes in a moderate oven.
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