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Syrupy Koeksisters
South African · Dessert

Syrupy Koeksisters

By Home cook

Plaited fried dough dunked in ice-cold syrup — crunchy outside, syrup-soaked inside.

Prep
90 min
Cook
30 min
Total
120 min
Serves
24

Ingredients

  • Syrup: 4 cups sugar, 2 cups water, 1 tsp ginger, juice of ½ lemon
  • Dough: 4 cups flour, 4 tsp baking powder, ½ tsp salt, 60g butter, 1 egg, 250ml milk
  • Oil for deep-frying

Method

  1. 1

    Boil syrup ingredients 5 minutes, then chill overnight (must be very cold).

  2. 2

    Rub butter into flour, baking powder and salt. Whisk egg and milk, mix into a soft dough. Rest 1 hour.

  3. 3

    Roll 5mm thick, cut into 6x2cm strips, slit each twice and plait.

  4. 4

    Fry at 180°C until golden.

  5. 5

    Straight from the oil, plunge into the icy syrup for 30 seconds. Lift onto a rack.

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