blue drawers

English

Noun

blue drawers (uncountable)

1. A Caribbean dessert made from batata, coconut, spices, and brown sugar, boiled in a banana leaf.

   Synonyms: duckanoo, tie-a-leaf

   • 1996, Jinx Morgan, Sugar Mill Caribbean Cookbook, page 27:

     The dark blue color imparted by the banana leaf and the shape of the fold leads some to call this dessert blue drawers.

   • 2015, Linda Bladholm, Latin & Caribbean Grocery Stores Demystified, page 343:

     The mixtures are wrapped and tied in banana leaf parcels and steamed. Names for these steamed cakes are boyo, duckoono, tie-a-leaf, and blue drawers, as the leaf stains the pudding a faint bluish color.

   • 2022, Kimberly J. Morse, The Americas: an Encyclopedia of Culture and Society, page 587:

     Blue drawers, also known as tie-a-leaf or dukunu, combine banana, coconut, sweet potato, and/or cornmeal in small squares, that are then wrapped in banana leaves and boiled for an hour.