so today I am here with and I am mom I'm pretty new Cheryl time and everything something help pull them out which it's like a cake thank you it's like of course you teach me would have gets up Portuguese hey bull the male translates to honey cake but there isn't any money in this so not sure about that my Portuguese fans can let you know but it was there it's a huge tradition in our family my mom's parents are from Madeira and they made this every year at Christmas and I mom did it and we do it and we all love it yeah yeah that's good sorry okay so first of all what you want to do is we want to get the molasses and the butter and the lard melting in a pot so if you want to get that going yeah it's heavy so you need 1 pound of butter 1 pound of Crisco shortening or lard and one pound of blackstrap molasses so there is little yep 4 6 a better one having to like chewing on this in the secret bang wait so do you want to open up the shortname while i'm doing better so this is something we eat before Christmas sometimes we definitely have it your Christmas dessert pour in I would say like 3/4 of that okay so it's gonna turn this on to medium I guess you want to watch it because you don't like to that's just gonna melt okay so then while that's melting we're going to put all the flour and spices together in the big ol dirty Mexicans do you want stay on this side you won't be on that side okay so I don't play barking so we pulled him so you want to mix all the dry ingredients so we're gonna start at 4 pounds of all-purpose flour and I'm sure at the same time but okay so that's four four pounds of flour what your instructions say is to make them well in the center of the flower so then we sprinkle all the other ingredients around it so word one sugar sprinkling sugar around the well we have fantasy that I've toasted that so that the flavor comes out nice licorice flavor this recipe creates this really moist crumbly cake the kind of has a ginger red kind of flavor to it yeah so it even though it's from Portugal I think there's definitely some German it's there not in my family but I think traditionally that's where it comes from okay and then this spices I've got cinnamon cloves and cracked black pepper and right let it ride one lemon and that's do the walnuts and slippery lawns and that Citroen betagen Citroen is that's mixed pilla Citroen so it's lemon rind grapefruit rind and orange rind and some candied that's called Citroen and while kale was putting in the orange juice as a juice from half a lemon rock Nora Nora happened in seven or eight to three I'm going to mix the ghee stuff so it's a packet at least if you have a cup of hot water with the teaspoon of sugar so I'm going to just put that in right now and get that to develop so the less agreement that we can put in is baking soda 2 tablespoons of baking soda so your butter and lard and molasses has cooled it's all mixed in it's cooled and the yeast in the sugar and the water test has developed so you can put that into the center yeah about the beer dad yeah but electrics for his hands are like don't mind okay so be careful done whatever yeah so we're into the hole into the center so on oh so now we just mix it together and I think what I'll use as a wooden spoon it's only stiffer than the spatula so do you want to do that so you gonna start at first using us witness boon because the the melted stuff is still fairly hot but once it starts to come together the fun part is getting her hands into it in a game maybe you don't have to do that that's what I was taught so you're talking about my heritage and we thought that since you guys don't know that me right so this is from this from my grandparents who were from Madeira and my mom your grandmother is Tess Portuguese descent but she was born in South America and that's panicking he wants he wants to tell you where he was born so my mom was born in South America and Georgetown and back then when she was born down there it was British Guiana under British rule now it's just a Hannah and she came up to Canada and met your grandfather my dad who was born in Toronto there's one you know my dad was for the trial but his father was born Blackpool England yeah in the history all right do not having no so I guess recovered my second family so then your dad was born in Toronto his mum was born in Brighton England such a great grandmother and his father was born adorable heart that's where your Gallagher name comes from so that's what be good is it smelling like yeah Christmas now do you want to take him and I'll get my arms in there you're pretty yeah so there's usually flower at the bottom you can't get it's just a spatula going my hands here he's scared and you see how the flowers coming out from the bottom and it's a really nice soft consistency right now probably like a gingerbread because you've got all that nice butter and and lard and molasses very soft and very light very fragrant okay so I think that's so you can see it's kind of sticky and yummy so what she would do is she kind of press it down like that much that's looking good and then should we take the side of your hand and she'd make the sign of the Cross so I still do that and as I do this I do this as I cry I feel my grandmother so so that is that is our tradition so tomorrow okay and we put saran on the top okay join do that now it's in the second so there we are that's ready to go and I would just put a tea towel over top of it just to keep it protected we're done is the next day okay so the bull mail has been sitting for 24 hours so now it's time to take it up put it into pans and bake it and we use six aluminum pans eight or nine inches is fine I really like the pans that have straight edges but we only have the these ones that have like a bit of a slope so really even do it everyone so why don't you get in there and start to break it up Kayla and put you need to identify just with your pants just get in there and just start and you don't need it tight like just tumble it in so just get in there and start putting it in here and then we'll press it down gently okay so now we've divided them up evenly and there's it's kind of like a bit of a hill so we just need to kind of tamp them down a little bit and I don't push too much so now what we do is we decorate the tops so traditionally what maybe I'm going to use was slivered almonds and some where the citroen which is the lemon and grapefruit and orange of my view then we would just do little decorations and then she would also use these great rich areas and I don't like to eat old ones so you can put one in the center where you could do a little wreath in the center or what everyone so 350 for 20 minutes so the lady changed by dark so see the change in they came now who's snowstorm outside yeah but anyway they're out of it now and you want to cool down my temperature yeah yeah you want to eat right now but yeah we want to get into right now but it needs but we have to try it right now yeah this will end again okay so I guess I guess we can just kind of do this you see how it's really breaking apart I mean it's really regret because it's still warm but that's what you want like this beautiful chunk of moist so