- Cooking Time:
- 2 Days
Level: Medium
Serves: 8-10

Ingredients
Dough:
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2 cups Cake Flour
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2 tablespoon Baking Powder
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½ teaspoon Salt
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1 large Egg
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4 tablespoon Butter/Margarine
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½ cup Water
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Oil for Frying
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Syrup:
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1kg Sugar
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1 ½ Cinnamon Sticks
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½ teaspoon Ground Ginger
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1 ½ cups Water
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1 Lemon, juiced
Directions
Dough:
- Sift the flour, baking powder and salt together.
- Rub in the butter and mix until pliable.
- Mix this with the egg and water (adding the water a little at a time).
- Work the dough well. If the dough appears to be lumpy and sticky, continue to work the dough until it will ball up.
- Let the dough rest at room temperature for about three hours (under an inverted mixing bowl).
Syrup:
- Prepare the syrup a day before (it needs to be very cold).
- Dissolve sugar in the water.
- Add the spices and lemon juice to this and boil together. Leave the syrup cool in the fridge overnight.
Koeksisters:
- Roll out the dough (thickness 5mm).
- Cut the dough into strips of 6cm long, 2cm wide.
- Cut each of these strips into three strips (not all the way through, leave the strips connected at the top).
- Plat each strip, pinch together at the end of the strip.
- Deep fry until golden brown.
- Remove and drain quickly – dip the hot koeksisters in the cold syrup (that was stored in the fridge up to now).
- The secret is to keep the syrup cold and the koeksisters hot, this way it will draw just the right amount of syrup.
- You can keep the syrup cold by keeping the syrup bowl in another container filled with iced water.
Equipment
- Measuring Cups
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Measuring Spoons
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Scale
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Mixing Bowls
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Rolling Pin
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Large Pot