Some say pudding, some say pone.
"Back home" might be Guyana, Trinidad, Jamaica, or St. Vincent and the Grenadines, the birthplaces of the four Caribbean bakers who bring their wares to the market. The baker from tiny St. Vincent prepares two sheet-cake-style items, neighbors on the menu and hard to distinguish at a glance: a bread pudding and this cassava pone ($1.25 at the time). At many other bakeries it's sold as cassava pudding, but under either name it has a compressed starchy texture and a barely sweet, very mild flavor.
It must have been one of the other bakers — from which island, I'm not sure — who prepared the coarser bread pudding below ($1.50), procured at Back Home's main facility on Church Ave. Given a choice, usually I'll request a slice from the edge of the pan, to get a little extra crunch.
Also shown below: the outside of the Caton Flatbush Market, where Back Home maintains a kiosk but that is otherwise light on food, and the facade of the long-vacated Loew's Kings theater, nearby.
Back Home Bakery
794-814 Flatbush Ave. (at Caton Ave., in the Caton Flatbush Market), Prospect Lefferts Gardens, Brooklyn
347-245-6388
3254 Church Ave. (at Brooklyn Ave.), Flatbush, Brooklyn
718-287-3031
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