Recipes

Traditional and contemporary recipes for biscuits, confectionery, cakes and tarts, rusks (beskuit), various breads and bunslight meals, sides, salads, the main course, pudding, a few drinks, as well as preserved foods.

We also have recipes for special occasions, such as braais (barbeques), breakfast, Christmas, Easter, and teatime.

Shortbread

Traditional, crumbly Scottish biscuit.

Savoury oatmeal biscuits

Healthier than typical low-budget water crackers: more fibre, less salt, and no palm oil.

Melktert shooters (melktertjies)

A modern shooter that smells and tastes like melktert (South African milk tart).

Fish fritters (viskoekies)

Easy, versatile recipe for inexpensive fishcakes.

Apple buttermilk pudding

Lovely caramel flavour combined with soft, melt-in-your-mouth texture

Sponge cake

An excellent sponge cake.

Easy chicken and vegetable pie

Flavoursome, first-class dish made from leftover chicken and vegetables.

Sweet and sour beans (sousbone)

Made from speckled "sugar beans".

Apricot tart (appelkoostert)

Cheese and condensed milk tart, with apricot halves, that perfectly combines sweet, tangy, and savoury tastes

Meat balls (frikkadelle) in tomato, wine, and onion sauce

South African meat balls in a heart-warming tomato, onion, and wine sauce.

Cape onion salad (slaphakskeentjies)

Old fashioned small pickled onions, in a tangy, piquant sauce,

Peach noodle salad

An easy and simple pasta salad for barbeques, picnics, or camping out.

Maize porridge pie (paptert)

Rich, moist, savoury tart made from South African maize porridge.

Cape pickled fish (Kaapse kerrievis)

Fish pickled in curry and vinegar. Ideal for long weekends, such as Easter.

Unbaked milk tart (ongebakte melktert)

Easy, delicious milk tart that can be made on a stove or in a microwave oven.

Broccoli with walnut dressing

Clever recipe for a simple broccoli salad

Balsamic strawberries

Balsamic vinegar is the perfect dressing for early-season strawberries.

Lemon-passionfruit meringue pie (suurlemoen-grenadilla meringuetert)

Passionfruit, added to a traditional lemon meringue pie.

Baked butternut with spicy West African peanut sauce

West-African peanut sauce on baked butternut is a stunning vegetarian option, especially at a barbeque

Corn, avocado, biltong, and tomato salad

South African twist on a trusted Kiwi salad.