During our visit to Kotido, besides doing Bible studies, my group of women learned how to use the fireless cooker and how to make cakes and scones. The fireless cooker was exciting. Some women who arrived late on that day could hardly believe that we had used dry beans - they thought they must have been fresh in order to get ready so quickly!
Many of them said they were going home to make their own fireless cooker; I look forward to hearing reports back next time about whether they did or not and their successes or failures with it.
They also had a lot of fun making cakes. Compared to people in most other areas, I think that many of them might be able to turn cake baking into a business. They are from pretty remote communities where people order cakes from Soroti (4+ hours away) or Kampala (10+ hours away), which is ridiculous and obviously very expensive. If they are able to advertise well, they should be able to start making cakes for weddings in their own area at a much lower cost.
On the last day, the group decided to make a huge cake (they quadrupled the banana cake recipe) for practice and celebration. I just watched. They were very happy with how beautifully it turned out.
That's great. The big cake IS beautiful. I hope they do start a business.
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