I have fond childhood memories of the crunchies my Granny made when we visited her in Joburg. Chewy, buttery and delicious, they were amongst my top favourite tea time treats. Part of the allure was that it was such a novelty. Back then Pretoria and Johannesburg were very far apart and we didn’t visit often. We would sit with the […]
Cranberry
Traditional Christmas gammon
It is that time of the year again – time for a traditional Christmas gammon feast. Over the years I’ve tried a number of recipes. Back in 2009 I made one by cooking the gammon in Coke, another year with a Chinese five-spice mix for an oriental flavour, a South African version with Castle lager, […]
Macadamia and Cranberry Nougat
Who can resist the challenge of making your own nougat? Certainly not me! Well, although this is not a complicated recipe, it proved quite stressful, mostly my worrying about whether I had done everything correctly. In the end everything worked out fine – even though the nougat did lose its shape, melting into a mound […]