While cleaning out my Google Docs, I found this recipe.
Ingredients
- Dry goods 1
- 250 g plain white flour
- 1 tbsp grated nutmeg
- 1/2 tsp salt
- Dry goods 2
- 50 g shortening
- 50 g margarine
- Dry goods 3
- 175 g brown sugar
- 50 g cherries
- 50 g raisins
- 225 g grated fresh coconut (not desiccated)
- Wet goods
- 1 tbsp almond essence
- 300 ml evaporated milk
- 50 ml water
- Liquid from grating the coconut
Method
- Grate the coconut, and keep the liquid
- Sift the ingredients in “Dry goods 1” together to mix and aerate
- Combine in the ingredients in “Dry goods 2”, rubbing the fat into the flour
- Combine in the ingredients in “Dry goods 3”
- Combine in the ingredients in “Wet goods”
- Let the mixture sit for 15 minutes
- Place the mixture in a greased loaf pan (no more than 3/4 full), and dust with brown sugar
- Bake for 30 minutes. The bread is done when it pulls away from the sides of the pan
- Remove from tin immediately, and place on cooling rack
For a softer sweetbread, mix or kneed the dough to a sticky consistency by adding more liquid. For a stiffer or heavier sweetbread, kneed to a dough like stiffer consistency by adding more flour and less coconut juice.