Here’s quindim, a dessert:

• a dozen yolks
• 240g refined sugar, plus a bit more
• 240g coconut milk
• 100g grated coconut
• 1tbsp butter, melted (for greasing)

1. Use the butter to grease some muffin moulds or similar. Then sprinkle some sugar over the butter - it helps to prevent the dish from sticking.
2. Get a large, oven-friendly pot. Put some cotton rag on the bottom of the pot, then the muffin moulds over the rag. Fill the space between the pot and moulds with water, taking care so no water leaks into the moulds. (Yup, good ol’ bain-marie.)
3. Sieve the yolks, to prevent lumps, otherwise the dessert gets an eggy taste. Add the other ingredients, and mix everything by hand until homogeneous. If you want the quindim to look as yellow as in the pic it’s fine to add some food dye, but I personally don’t bother.
4. Carefully pour the mix into the moulds. The grated coconut will float, it’s fine.
5. Put the pot in a pre-heated oven, medium (180°C) heat. It should take 30min~1h to cook it; you know that it’s done by sticking a toothpick inside the dish - if it comes off clean then it’s done.

Since the assemblage is tricky to explain, I’m also including a drawing:

The rag is not strictly obligatory but it prevents the moulds from wobbling back and forth.

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Further info on this dish: that’s a recipe from Northeastern Brazil, originated in colonial times. Back then nuns used egg whites to starch their robes, following what was customary in Portugal, so they were left with a buttload of leftover yolks. One of the ways that they found to use them is to mix with sugar (widely available there, as the region was basically settled for sugar cane farming) and coconut (also widely available there). The name is a borrowing from Kikongo “di-kende”, basically “the girls’ way”.

Nowadays it’s available across the whole country and I wouldn’t be surprised if it made its way back into Portugal. Most people don’t prepare it at home, since it’s often sold in bakeries.