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What better way to enjoy the Easter weekend with your family and loved ones, than with some delicious sweet treats. These bite sized biscuits will be the perfect Easter accompaniment for everyone in the family, even the little ones!
Clover Mama Afrika’s Mama Yvonne shares her hearty Hertzog Biscuits recipe, perfect for a Easter weekend!
The recipe book, Clover Mama Afrika’s Manna was released in December 2022, as a beautiful tribute to the amazing women of the project. The cookbook is a collection of treasured, traditional South African recipes from the Mama Afrikas themselves. This special book was created for all the Mama Afrikas, with the purpose of sharing their lovely recipes with each other, and to honour these incredible women who passionately care for their communities.
The name of the cookbook, ‘manna’ was given with the Mama Afrikas in mind; manna refers to spiritual or divine nourishment. It is widely accepted that these women are the primary caregivers in many communities. To those in their care, Mama Afrikas are a godsend, and their valuable contributions and involvement are like Manna from heaven to the community. It refers to manna for sustenance through the transfer of income-generating skills, and it’s manna for the soul because those empowered by the Mama Afrikas regain a sense of pride, dignity and self-respect as active members of the community.
To celebrate our South African heritage, we share the love by sharing their delicious ‘manna’ recipes with the country.
Hertzog Biscuits
Ingredients:
Dough
500ml Maizena corn flour
3 Egg yolks
125g Clover Mooiriver butter
30ml Sugar
10ml Baking powder
2.5ml Salt
Filling
125ml Sugar
500ml Coconut
3 Egg whites, stiffly beaten
Apricot jam
Method:
Dough
- Sift dry ingredients together.
- Rub butter into dry ingredients and make a mixture with the egg yolks.
- Leave to rest for 30 minutes.
- Roll out thinly, press circles and place in a muffin pan.
- Put 5ml apricot jam in each muffin hole.
Filling
- Beat egg white until stiff but not dry.
- Fold sugar and coconut into stiffly beaten egg white and spoon over each muffin hole with jam.
- Bake 15-20 minutes at 180°C until light brown on top.
- Serve with tea or coffee.