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Guinea-Bissau

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Guinea-Bissau is a small West African country bordering Guinea and Senegal.  There has been a lot of unrest since they gained independence from Portugal in 1974.  Their conveniently-named capital is Bissau.  Read more in the CIA World Factbook . We're catching up to life a little bit here, although this was still about four months ago.  I cannot for the life of me find the original recipe I used.  I did Bolo a Moda da Guine Bissau - basically, Cake in the Style of Guinea-Bissau.   This one is fairly close , but not exactly what I followed. Oh well, we press on anyway. This looks simple.  A five ingredient cake.  I can do this without anything special from the store!  Butter, flour, sugar, eggs, and milk.  Let's do this! Did I not soften the butter ahead of time?  Was I supposed to?  The world may never know. Brendan spent some time as photographer.  I apologize.   Add some flour and milk and we'r...