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This weeks recipes posted on Facebook
Here follows a round up of the past week’s recipes posted on Facebook.
Monday 13th May – TOMATO FRIKKADEL
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Tuesday 14th May – CHICKEN WRAPS
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Wednesday 15th May – DHAL AND BATTERED FISH FILLETS
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Thursday 16th May – FLAKY ROTI
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Friday 17th May – MAQLUBA
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Saturday 18th May – DHALTJIES / PAKORAS
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FOR MORE RECIPES 
Gingernut Biscuits
GINGERNUT BISCUITS
Makes about 30 biscuits
Ingredients:
2 cups cake flour
1 cup soft brown sugar
½ teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
2 teaspoons ground ginger
125g softened butter
1 egg
3 teaspoons golden syrup
Method:
Preheat the oven to 170C.
Melt the butter, and mix in the beaten egg and golden syrup. (margarine can be used instead of the butter, but they do lose some of the melt in the mouth quality).
Mix together the dry ingredients, and then add the butter/egg mix. Make sure these mix thoroughly, it should be a firm dough consistency
Shape the resulting dough into small balls roughly 2cm across.
Place WELL APPART on a thoroughly greased tray and bake for 20-25 minutes.
Loosen the biscuits gently and leave to cool completely on the tray.
Chocolate Coconut Dream Cookie
CHOCOLATE COCONUT DREAM COOKIE
Delicious chocolate, coconut and oats biscuits, the whole family as well as the chocolate addicts will enjoy this biscuit.
Chocolate Coconut Dreams
CHOCOLATE COCONUT DREAMS
Ingredients:
2 cups plain flour
2 cups rolled oats
1 cup sugar
1 ¼ cup desiccated coconut
250g soft butter
5ml bicarbonate of soda
25ml boiling water
25ml cocoa powder
25ml golden syrup
2 large eggs, beaten
To complete: 150g cooking chocolate
Method:
Combine flour, oats, sugar & coconut in a large mixing bowl.
Rub in butter with finger tips to resemble fine crumbs.
Pour boiling water over bicarbonate of soda, stir in cocoa powder and golden syrup.
Beat eggs well and combine all ingredients. Mix well to form soft dough.
Divide into approx. 30 small balls. Place on a baking tray and press flat with a fork.
Bake in a preheated oven at 190C for 10-12 minutes.
Cool on a cooling rack and decorate with melted cooking chocolate.
Hertsoggies / Hertzoggies
Hertsoggies / Hertzoggies
From My Kitchen To Yours – keeping our heritage alive since 2011!
This is so traditional in the Cape Malay community! It’s a tremendously popular cookie/biscuit.
Named after General J.B.M. Hertzog, the prime minister of the Union of South Africa, from 1924 to 1939. It was apparently his favourite cookie.
Hertzoggies
Ingredients:
1 large egg
125g butter, softened
1/4 cup vegetable/sunflower oil
3/4 cup sugar
2 cups self raising flour
2 cups cake / plain flour
1 tsp vanilla essence
1 level teaspoon baking powder
Method:
Cream together egg, sugar, butter and oil until light and fluffy.
Mix in vanilla essence.
Sift in selfraising flour and cake flour and mix into creamed mixture to make a fairly stiff dough. roll out dough to 3 mm thick on a lightly floured surface and cut out shapes with flower shape biscuit cutter. Place on hertzoggie baking sheet. Place half teaspoons of coconut boiled with sugar and water. Bake at 200C for 10 minutes or until lightly browned. Place half teaspoon apricot jam next to coconut before serving.
Cape Malay Cooking & Other Delights - Salwaa Smith 
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