Tag: Christmas cake

A cake baked in a borma (a traditional coconut shell-fired oven) is the stuff of nostalgia. People from a generation or two ago, when cakes were not as widespread, fondly remember them. Bakeries were few and far between, and those primarily baked bread. Kochi-based baker Tsarina Abrao Vacha’s great-great-grandfather, Ignatius Rozario, is said to have […]

A cake baked in a borma (a traditional coconut shell-fired oven) is the stuff of nostalgia. People from a generation or two ago, when cakes were not as widespread, fondly remember them. Bakeries were few and far between, and those primarily baked bread. Kochi-based baker Tsarina Abrao Vacha’s great-great-grandfather, Ignatius Rozario, is said to have […]