Asham

Asham

Asham or Brown George is a corn-based Jamaican cuisine dessert. "It is made by shelling dry corn, parching it in a hot pot and then pounding it in a wooden mortar and sifting it until it is similar to sand. Salt or sugar can then be added to the brown mixture and it can be eaten dry or with water. Asham comes from the African Twi word for 'parched, ground corn'." It is sometimes recooked.

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