Place of origin South Africa | ||
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Similar Melktert, Vetkoek, Bobotie, Boerewors, Malva pudding | ||
Vickie s koeksister tutorial full length
A koeksister is a traditional South African flavoured syrup or honey infused fried dough. The name derives from the Dutch word "koek", which generally means a wheat flour confectionary, also the origin of the American English word "cookie". The frying of dough strips in this manner is of Malay/Indonesian origin, possibly with Indian influence, originally eaten as an unsweetened breakfast savoury brought to South Africa with Malaysian workers.
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Koeksisters are prepared by frying plaited dough strips in oil, then submersing the hot fried dough into ice cold sugar syrup. Koeksisters have a golden crunchy crust and liquid syrup centre, very sticky and sweet and taste like honey.
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Monument
A monument of a koeksister in the extreme right wing Afrikaner cultural community of Orania recalls an Afrikaner folk tradition of baking them to raise funds for building of churches and schools.
