Baba Dudu

What we know so far

Baba dudu, "black father", is the dark coconut toffee of Nigerian childhood: coconut milk boiled down to its cream and cooked with sugar until it turns from white to caramel to a deep chocolate brown, then scooped hot into little twists of clear nylon where it hardens into hard, chewy, burnt-sugar sweets. It is sold by the string at school gates and kiosks under a dozen names (sweet alagbon, chalbin mallam, black tofi), and the strings were once worn round the neck as "bullets" in games of police and thief. Two ingredients, a pot, and patience at the stove.

The draft was written from 2 published sources and holds 4 ingredients and 6 steps. It has never been cooked by anybody at AFN, which is why it is waiting.

What claiming it means

1. Cook it the way you actually make it. Change anything in our draft that is wrong, and most of it probably is.
2. Photograph your own, so the page carries a real picture instead of somebody else's.
3. Send it in. An editor reads it, and it publishes with your name on it and a link to your profile.

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