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Betumi is  a Web Site that aims to connect “scholars, professionals and others who delight in African cuisine and food history” launches Africa Cookbook Project - an archive of African culinary writing. Fran Osseo-Asare runs the site, she offers some insight into the project:
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Recipe Serves 12
Ingredients:

Twelve Hard boiled eggs
Seven Raw Braithwaite sausage or 12 breakfast sausages
1/2 cup flour
Two Raw eggs
One cup of Bread crumbs
Vegetable oil

Instruction:

Boil the 12 eggs for 15 minutes
Peel eggs and put them in a bowl.
Put all the flour in a bowl next to the boiled eggs
Next to that bowl put the raw sausages
Beat the [...]