🍬dessert
Blue Draws
“Wrap-Up Sweetness”
Long before cellophane or plastic wrap ever touch Jamaican soil, our grandmothers used what the land gave them — broad, supple banana leaves picked fresh from the yard. Blue Draws is one of those recipes that carry the memory of slavery days, when enslaved Africans on the sugar plantations of St. Th...
9 ingredients
Slavery era through post-Emancipation (1700s-1900s)
The banana leaf does more than wrap — it releases subtle tannins during boiling that give Blue Draws its distinctive slight blue-green tinge and earthy undertone that no baking pan can replicate.
YARD KITCHEN
Old Time Jamaican Recipes