Meaning
A dense, sweet baked cake — 'cassava pone' — made from grated cassava mixed with coconut, sugar, and warm spices, and baked until firm and golden. Unlike bammy, which is the plain savoury flatbread of pressed cassava, the cassava cake is a moist, chewy dessert in the same family as potato and cornmeal pudding. It is an old, thrifty sweet made from the grated cassava that is such a staple of the provision ground.
Examples
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Granny bake a cassava cake fi Sunday.
Granny baked a cassava cake for Sunday.
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Grate di cassava an mix it wid coconut.
Grate the cassava and mix it with coconut.
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Cassava cake moist an chewy.
Cassava cake is moist and chewy.
Origin
From 'cassava' + 'cake' (cassava pone); a sweet baked grated-cassava dessert. See [[sweet-cassava]], [[potato-pudding]].
How it’s used
A sweet baked grated-cassava dessert ('cassava pone'), distinct from bammy. See [[sweet-cassava]], [[potato-pudding]].