Soetkoekies (Traditional South African Biscuits)
- Ready In:
- 25mins
- Ingredients:
- 13
- Yields:
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30 Biscuits
ingredients
- 473.18 ml flour
- 2.46 ml baking soda
- 2.46 ml cream of tartar
- 4.92 ml ground cinnamon
- 2.46 ml ground ginger
- 2.46 ml ground nutmeg
- 1.23 ml ground cloves
- 236.59 ml brown sugar
- 113.39 g chopped almonds
- 118.29 ml chilled butter, cut into small pieces
- 2 eggs, lightly beaten
- 59.14 ml port wine or 59.14 ml sherry wine
- 1 egg white, beaten
directions
- Combine the flour, baking soda, cream of tartar, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, ground cloves, brown sugar, and almonds in a large bowl.
- Add the butter and cut into the flour mixture.
- Add the beaten eggs and red wine and mix dough together vigorously until it can be formed into a ball.
- Preheat oven to 350°F.
- On a lightly floured surface, roll the dough into a rough circle about 1/4" thick.
- With a cookie cutter, cut the dough into 2-inch rounds.
- Arrange the rounds about 1 inch apart on a buttered cookie sheet.
- Continue cutting cookies, then brush each gently with the egg white.
- Bake for 15 minutes, until golden brown.
- Remove to a rack to cool completely.
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Reviews
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Fabulous cookies. friends and I have been making them for years. I roll my cookie dough into logs the same diameter as required by the recipe. Then freeze the logs and bake from frozen, same temperature, same time. Cookies whenever I want them! Patricia. A South African permanently living in Australia
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I just have to say that this is one of the best tasting biscuits I have ever tasted in my life no lie. I brought this into my A.P Human Geography class, on food heritage day. My teacher and my fellow 9th grade peeps, enjoyed them so much they want me to make them again. It was so easy to make and worth the little effort you have to put into them.
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Scottburgh, KZN
I,m a Mum of 3 (26,22,and 19)They keep me on my toes so to speak!!!!!! and rapidly heading for Hair dye.
I live in Sunny South Africa but I,m of Welsh(uk)decent!
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