Cow Cod Soup

Jamaica

This is the basic Jamaican soup

This recipe contains the cod or penis of a bull and includes bananas, scotch bonnet pepper and white rum. Eating the genitals of the bull has been thought to make
males more virile. According to the Jamaicans.com website: “Most Jamaican
eateries serve up cow cod soup on the weekends, a thick pottage of the bovine member cut up into little gelatinous pieces and mixed with roots and herbs selected for their similar therapeutic effects.”
This soup may not be for family on a rainy evening but to some Jamaican men, a full serving of Cow Cod soup on a Saturday night has its benefits.

Serves about 5

INGREDIENTS:
• chopped up cow cod
• 1 tbsp butter
• 1 head of garlic, crushed,
• 4 stalks scallion and thyme
• 8 - 10 pimentos, seeded
• 1 large green bell pepper (sweet pepper)
• 1 whole scotch bonnet pepper
• 1 pk chicken noodle or 2 Maggi cubes
• 3 - 6 green bananas (green figs)
• ½ lb yam
• 3 small Irish potatoes
• flour for dumpling
• 2 fresh bay leaves
• 2 chochos (christophene) (optional)
• salt and pepper to taste

1. Wash chopped cow cod. (Normally, the penis and testicles are washed and cleaned, then scalded in
boiling water. The genitalia are then cut into pieces and set aside. If you can not get it already prepared, you can do this yourself).

2. Put in a large pot (a pressure cooker is best) with enough water to cover the meat. Add 3 tsps salt,
pimentos and garlic. Cook on a medium/high stove until meat is tender.

3. Add more water, 1pk. chicken noodle or Maggi cubes and bay leaves.

4. Peel and cut up potatoes and chochos and add to the meat mixture. Peel green bananas (cut off the top and bottom and slit the skin).

5. Add bananas and yam to pot.

6. Add black pepper, thyme, some pimento seeds, scallion, whole scotch bonnet pepper (do not let it burst open) when the soup is almost finished.

Serve hot.