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"This desert recipe was given to me by my South African friend Sheralee. I haven't tried it yet, but it sounds delicious. Posted for ZWT 4."

Ingredients: cinnamon, eggs, milk...

"A South African Tart. For a richer vanilla flavor, add a split vanilla bean, with the seeds, to the milk along with the cinnamon stick, and omit the vanilla extract."

Ingredients: cinnamon sticks, cornstarch...

"This is a firm family favourite. My mother use to make this with surplus milk (even if the milk was a little sour). It gets more firm the cooler it gets - so give it a chance to set once cooked. I don't think that it needs custard or cream or ice cream with it...besides you won't just want 1 helping!!!"

Ingredients: eggs, margarine, milk...

"This is an old South African favourite, often made for the small Home Industry outlets and for our numerous interesting roadside "farm stall" coffee shops, where good preserves, breads and bakery goods are often for sale. If you like almonds, this is for you."

Ingredients: apricot halves, egg yolks...

"A traditional South African tart (the milk tart, not Aunty Sue!!) I know it is a lot of milk and eggs, but really good comfort food."

Ingredients: cornflour, eggs, milk...

"Having emigrated to England nearly 10 years ago, there are few tastes that remind me of home, and Melk Tert is definitely one of them. Between the four of us in my family growing up, we'd finish an entire tart in a Sunday afternoon and fight over who got the bigger slice. It's consistancy is like cheesecake, and it has a dusting of cinnamon..."

Ingredients: cinnamon, cornflour...

"This is a type of custard pie made in South Africa. This is a simple yet totally satisfying dessert or as a treat with coffee."

Ingredients: cinnamon, cornstarch...

"My own variation on the very popular South African style of Lemon Meringue Pie. Has a biscuit base, delicious tart lemon filling and fluffy meringue. I worked out the recipe based on others I'd found and trying to approximate the pie I remembered from my childhood!

Can be made either as two big pies (shallow 20cm, or in theory one deep..."

Ingredients: condensed milk, digestive biscuits...