Potjiekos Recipes

Potjie Pudding

Ingredients – Syrup

125ml water
250ml hanepoot wine
250ml fresh orange juice
100g sugar
10ml butter
5ml grated orange rind
1 clove
1 stick cinnamon
25ml lemon juice
2ml ground ginger

Ingredients – Batter

160g butter
100g castor sugar
2 eggs, whisked
25ml apricot jam
5ml grated orange rind
5ml vanilla essence
180g self-raising flour
Pinch of salt
5ml bicarbonate of soda
250ml milk
150g seedless raisins

Preparation

Place all ingredients for the syrup in a potjie and bring to the boil. To make the batter, cream the butter and castor sugar together. Add the eggs and beat well. Also add the apricot jam, orange rind and vanilla essence and blend. Sift the flour and salt together and gradually add to the mixture. Blend well. Dissolve the bicarbonate of soda in the milk and add to the mixture with the raisins. Blend well. Drop spoonfuls of the mixture into the boiling syrup, cover and simmer for about 20 to 30 minutes or until the surface no longer looks like uncooked dough.