Koeksisters

A community recipe by musicalcook

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Introduction

A lovely, sinful South African dessert.

Ingredients

Serves: 36

Metric Cups

For the Dough

500 grams cake flour
¼ teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons baking powder
50 grams butter
1 egg
250 millilitres water

For the Syrup

1 kilogram sugar
500 millilitres water
1 pinch of salt
¼ teaspoon ground ginger
1 lemon (with peel)
vegetable oil (suitable for deep frying)

For the Dough

17⅔ ounces cake flour
¼ teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons baking powder
1¾ ounces butter
1 egg
9 fluid ounces water

For the Syrup

2⅕ pounds sugar
18 fluid ounces water
1 pinch of salt
¼ teaspoon ground ginger
1 lemon (with peel)
vegetable oil (suitable for deep frying)

Method

Koeksisters is a community recipe submitted by musicalcook and has not been tested by Nigella.com so we are not able to answer questions regarding this recipe.

Sift cake flour together with salt and baking powder. Rub in the butter with your fingers, as if making a crumble.

Mix egg and water and add to flour mixture, kneading it into a dough.

Roll the dough out to a thickness of about 10mm. Cut into rectangles, about 8x4 cm. With kitchen scissors, slit each rectangle almost to the top to form 3 strands. Plait the strands, keeping each rectangle flat so that it doesn't stretch, and pinch the plaits together at the ends.

Place the plaits on a tray and cover with a sightly damp cloth.

For the syrup,

mix together the sugar, water, salt ,ginger and slice of lemon. Bring to boil over medium to high heat, and leave to simmer for about 15 mins, until it forms a syrup.

Pour into a large bowl and leave to cool. Refridgerate until cold.

Deep fry the Koeksister plaits in hot oil until golden. Inmediately plunge them into the cold syrup. The Koeksisters will absorb the syrup.

Leave to dry on a rack.