Feb 22, 1789 Home Logbook Feb 24, 1789
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Moderate and cloudy Wr. some showers of Rain. Wind ENE, SE, NE & SE. Thermr. 80 and 83¾.
Employed Caulking. Cooper repairing Casks. Armourer at the Forge. Hands about the Rigging. Cleared the Fore Hole and began to start the old Water. Hands cutting wood. Sick list as yesterday. Plentifull supplies.
Tynah and Iddeeah returned to me this afternoon, and I got a grant from him of a few more Trees of the Vee kind, so that I have now no doubt of completing the ship with wood. In the morning he brought me a present of a large quantity of Breadfruit, Cocoa nutts, some Plantains, Mahie and a very large Hog. A similar present was also made to me by his Father Otow.
This old cheif seldom comes off to the ship, but his Wife visits us every day. I am now on such a footing with them that they will not admit me to make an immediate return for any thing they bring to me, I am however induced to make them gainers by their politeness, of which they are perfectly sensible.
Iddeeah sent me on board for our Dinners (for they always live with me) a very fine Tarro pudding. This perhaps is one of the most simple and best thing of the kind that is known, and as it may be valuable to our West India Friends. I shall now just make a memorandum of its process.
The Tarro is first cleared of its outside Skin by scraping it with a mussell shell and is then grated down by help of a peice of Coral Rock. Fully an equal or rather a larger quantity of old Cocoa nutts are likewise prepared in the same manner and through a Strainer its rich milky juice is expressed by the hand.
The Tarro is made up in small rolls and covered neatly with leaves and baked which if each roll weighs about a half pound, will take about twenty or thirty minutes doing.
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The Milk being ready by the time the Tarro is, a few hot stones are put into it, and the Tarro as soon as the milk becomes heated. The whole then is mixed and kept constantly stirring to prevent burning untill it is ready, which is known by the milk at last turning to a clear oil.
Smooth stones are the best for this purpose and if they are hard and contain the Heat well, six pounds of stones will dress nearly four pounds of Pudding. About the size of a small fist are the best. A small pudding is dressed in five minutes.
The quantity of Milk should be sufficient to keep the Tarro very moist and rich with it, but the whole will be easily known after a trial.
A single bunch of Bananas which Tynah brought me to day weighed 81 lbs and had 286 fine fruit on it. Ten fruit were broken off before I got it.
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