POTATO KOEKSISTERS

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Salwaa Smith - Cape Malay Cooking & Other Delights

Ingredients: 2 potatoes 1 tablespoon butter 4 x 250ml cake flour 1 teaspoon baking powder 2 packets instant yeast 1 teaspoon fine cinnamon 2 teaspoons fine ginger 2 teaspoons fine aniseed 1 teaspoon fine cardamon 2 teaspoons fine naartjie peel (optional) 1 egg 125ml - 250ml milk water (half water half milk) 1 tablespoon sugar 1 tabelspoon oil

Method: Cook and mash potatoes with butter. Mix dry ingredients in a large bowl. Beat egg, sugar and oil together. Add 125ml milk water first, if dough is too stiff add the remaining milk water. Add liquid mixture and potatoes to dry ingredients. Mix to a soft dough. Set dough aside in a warm place, covered, to rise until double in size. Divide dough into approx 30 small balls on a slightly oiled surface. Heat oil in large saucepan. Once oil is hot gently pull koeksister into an oblong shape and fry each side until browned. Drain on absorbent paper.

Sugar syrup: 500ml water 250ml sugar

Boil water and sugar until sugar is dissolved and syrup is slightly thickened and sticky. Add drops of water if syrup becomes too sticky.

Boil koeksisters in sugar syrup for approx 1 minute. Sprinkle with desicatted coconut.

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