Koeksister
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| Type | Pastry |
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| Course | Dessert |
| Place of origin | South Africa |
| Main ingredients | Dough, sugar syrup |
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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.
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.
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.
Koeksister Monument in Orania
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