The Jam Fruit TreeWinner of the Gratiean Memorial Prize for the best work in English Literature by a Sri Lankan for 1993 Hilarious, affectionate, candid and moving, this is the story of the Burghers of Sri Lanka... Who are the Burghers? Descended from the Dutch, the Portuguese, the British and other foreigners who arrived in the island-nation of Sri Lanka (and 'mingled' with the local inhabitants), the Burghers often stand out because of their curiously mixed features-grey eyes in an otherwise Dravid face, for instance.... A handsome and guileless people, the Burghers have always lived it up, forever willing to 'put a party'. Carl Muller, a Burgher himself, writes in this quasi-fictional, engaging biography of the lives of his people; they emerge, at the end of his story, as a race of fun-loving, hardy people, much like the jam fruit tree which simply refuses to be contained or destroyed. |
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Page 184
... cake everybody wants to eat . But when go to visit they say my , why you waited so long to come ? Now even the cake is finished . ' They get together over the cake mixture , creaming butter and sugar and adding egg yolk and Beulah is ...
... cake everybody wants to eat . But when go to visit they say my , why you waited so long to come ? Now even the cake is finished . ' They get together over the cake mixture , creaming butter and sugar and adding egg yolk and Beulah is ...
Page 185
... cake trays borne carefully on their heads , to the nearest bakery where the trays are accepted , labelled and a collection time given . There , the cakes are baked and then carried back to be checked carefully and the women are ...
... cake trays borne carefully on their heads , to the nearest bakery where the trays are accepted , labelled and a collection time given . There , the cakes are baked and then carried back to be checked carefully and the women are ...
Page 186
... cake . Making a real Dutch breudher is another art Maudiegirl excelled in and passed on to her daughters ( who were also shown how to make excellent love cake and that intrinsically Portuguese sweet - the many layered cake which was a ...
... cake . Making a real Dutch breudher is another art Maudiegirl excelled in and passed on to her daughters ( who were also shown how to make excellent love cake and that intrinsically Portuguese sweet - the many layered cake which was a ...
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