Duff is a Bahamian cuisine dessert dish made with fruit (especially

guava Guava () is a common tropical fruit cultivated in many tropical and subtropical regions. The common guava ''Psidium guajava'' (lemon guava, apple guava) is a small tree in the myrtle family ( Myrtaceae), native to Mexico, Central America, the ...

) in a dough. Fruit is folded into the dough and boiled, then served with a sauce. Ingredients include fruit, butter, sugar, eggs, nutmeg, cinnamon, cloves, flour, rum, pepper, and baking powder. Duff is also an English term for ''pudding''. Examples are ''Christmas duff'', ''

plum duff A plum is a fruit of some species in ''Prunus'' subg. ''Prunus'.'' Dried plums are called prunes. History Plums may have been one of the first fruits domesticated by humans. Three of the most abundantly cultivated species are not found i ...

'' and ''suet duff''. In the 1901 short story by Henry Lawson, "The Ghosts of Many Christmases", published in ''Children of the Bush'',''Children of the Bush''
at gutenberg.org plum pudding is referred to both as ''pudding'' and ''duff'':

The storekeeper had sent them an unbroken case of canned plum pudding, and probably by this time he was wondering what had become of that blanky case of duff.

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{{Reflist Bahamian cuisine Fruit dishes Guava dishes Foods with alcoholic drinks Stuffed desserts

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