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Yoruba Cooking1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 August 2012

Extract

Among the Yoruba, cooking is done on a hearth (aro, adiro) consisting of three stones or lumps of clay on which a pot may be set over a wood fire. Five principal cooking techniques are employed:

se, bǫ, to boil in water, or to steam in leaves;

din, to fry in deep oil;

yan, ta, to toast beside the fire, or in live embers or in a potsherd or dry pot over the fire;

sun, to roast in the fire;

bu, to bake in hot ashes.

Résumé

LA CUISINE DES YORUBA

Cet article constitue la deuxième partie d'une étude de l'alimentation des Yoruba, dont la première partie fut publiée dans le tome xxi, no. 1 de ce journal (Janvier 1951). L'article traite de la cuisine et des méthodes de préparation des divers aliments décrits dans l'article précédent; il donne plusieurs recettes pour la cuisine des céréales, des légumes et des fruits classés dans ces catégories.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © International African Institute 1951

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