Koeksisters
photo by Luschka
- Ready In:
- 1hr 10mins
- Ingredients:
- 12
- Yields:
-
24 keoksisters
- Serves:
- 24
ingredients
- 375 ml water
- 800 g sugar
- 2 ml cream of tartar
- 2 ml ground ginger
- 3 cinnamon sticks
- 500 g cake flour
- 30 ml baking powder
- 2 ml salt
- 50 ml butter
- 2 eggs
- 250 ml milk
- oil (for deep frying)
directions
- First make syrup. Heat water in saucepan, add sugar and stir until dissolved.
- Add cream of tartar, ginger and cinamon.
- Boil uncovered for 5 minutes. Do not stir.
- Remove from stove and chill.
- While syrup is chilling, make the koeksisters.
- Sift flour, baking powder and salt together.
- Add butter and rub it in with fingertips until mixture resembles fine crumbs.
- Beat eggs and milk together and add to dry ingredients.
- Mix dough well then knead lightly for 2 minutes to make it pliable.
- Cover basin with wax paper and leave for 1 hour.
- Roll out dough to 1cm thick.
- Cut strips (rectangles) 8cm x 4 cm, then make 2 vertical cuts in each strip, starting 5mm from the top and cutting down right to the bottom.
- Plait strips loosely and secure at loose end.
- Heat oil to 190C and deep-fry koeksisters for 1 minute. Not too many at once.
- Remove from oil and drain on paper towel for 1 minute and then dip in syrup for until soaked (1 minute).
- Remove from syrup and place on dish to dry.
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Reviews
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I really loved this recipe. It was a lot quicker than some others and it produced tasty koeksisters. I put them on a plate at a party and went to the kitchen to get more goodies. By the time I got back to the table, the koeksisters were gone. Made some for myself and a few others the very next day! I made them a lot smaller and rolled the dough out a lot thinner as they swell quite a lot and I found they didn't cook properly if they were too thick, so the inside was still raw. The second lot were the thinner lot and they were perfect. I also put the syrup in two bowls so that I could keep switching it in the freezer to ensure the syrup was really cold. Great recipe though, which I will certainly use again.
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South African living in NZ.