Koeksusters
- Ready In:
- 1hr
- Ingredients:
- 10
- Yields:
-
12 Koeksusters
ingredients
-
Syrup
- 1419.54 ml water
- 24 g gingerroot
- 3 kg sugar (12 cups)
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Dough
- 1419.54 ml plain flour
- 29.57 ml baking powder
- 125 g margarine
- 2 eggs
- 125 ml evaporated milk
- 312 ml lukewarm water
- 0.25 ml salt
directions
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Syrup:
- 1. Boil well 3 cups of Water with the ginger.
- 2. Remove the Ginger and add 3 more cups of Water.
- 3. Bring to boil again.
- 4. Then add 2.5 kgs (12 cups) of Sugar and allow to boil for 5 minutes.
- 5. Put in fridge and leave overnight.
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Dough:
- 1. Mix all the ingredients together and knead well and then leave to rest.
- 2. Roll the dough flat into an oval/square until it is 5mm thick.
- 3. Cut the dough into strips 2.5cm across.
- 4. Then cut these strips into lengths of 6cm. (So you are left with a whole bunch of rectangles 2.5cm x 6cm.).
- 5. Then make two cuts along the length of the rectangles so that you can braid them. What you're aiming at is the same braid in a scout's toggle. (or similar to a girl's 3-strand braid in her hair.).
- 6. When you're finished you should have a whole bunch of braided dough pastries ready to be boiled in oil --
- 7. Cook these in hot oil until golden brown and crisp.
- 8. Dip the whole cooked Koeksuster immediately into your cool syrup that you've hauled out the fridge.
- 9. Remove from the syrup and allow to cool (on a newspaper or kitchen towel) before eating.
- 10. Don't eat too many!
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RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
Allan Rees-Bevan
London
- Married with a beautiful baby boy (http://www.rees-bevan.com/kieran)
- Love cooking/baking and trying new stuff in the kitchen
- Web programmer and public speaker
- Originally from Cape Town, South Africa... arrived London 1999, moved to Sydney in Sept 2005.