With it’s coffee-fudge filling, a favourite biscuit.
Biscuits
500g flour (approximately 3 1/2 cups)
1/2 teaspoon salt
159gm sugar
200 gram butter
1/2 cup golden syrup or honey
1 1/2 tsp baking soda
1/4 cup very strong black coffee)
1/2 teaspoon (5 ml) vanilla essence
Coffee fudge filling
1 tbsp strong instant coffee
1 tvsp boiling water
3/4 c sugar
75g butter
1/4 cup milk
1/2 teaspoon (5 ml) vanilla
Method
1.Sift the flour and salt together in a large mixing bowl.
2.Melt the butter, sugar and golden syrup in a saucepan and stir until sugar is dissolved. Remove from heat and cool.
3.Add vanilla to cooled mixture.
4.Dissolve the bicarbonate of soda in a little coffee. Add this mixture, and the rest of the coffee, to the cooled butter and syrup mixture.
5.Add to flour and knead well to form soft dough. Cover and leave overnight.
6.Use a sausage maker with a cookie fitting to form long strips of dough. You’ll need a second person to help you! Although her mother used an electric mincer, Marietjie use an old Meat Mincer / Sausage Maker that is cranked by hand.
7.Cut the cookies into even lengths. A square 5 cm cookie cutter is ideal.
8.Place on greased cookie sheets and bake at 200 ºC for about 12 minutes until golden brown and baked through.
9.Cool the biscuits on wire racks.
10.To make the filling, dissolve the coffee in the boiling water and add the remaining ingredients, except the vanilla.
11.Boil for 8 minutes, uncovered.
12.Remove from the stove, and beat with a wooden spoon until thick and cooled.
13.Sandwich the biscuits together with the coffee fudge filling.