Potjie Dumplings

Potjie No: 2
Serves: 10
Cooking Time: 10 minutes
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Ingredients

250 ml cake flour
Pinch of salt
5 ml baking powder
1 large egg, beaten
50-75 ml milk, or milk and water
100 ml melted butter
Cinnamon sugar

Method

• Sift flour, salt and baking powder together.
• Beat egg, milk or milk and water and half the melted butter together and add to flour. Mix well to a soft dough that will drop easily off the spoon.
• Half fill potjie with water and bring to the boil.
• As soon as large bubbles appear in the water, drop teaspoonfuls of batter into the water.
• Cover with lid and simmer over a medium heat for 10 minutes.
• If the water boils too vigorously the mixture will boil over.
• Resist the temptation to peep into the potjie during this time as the dumplings will flop.
• After 10 minutes, if the dumplings have not yet floated to the top of the water, they are still not cooked.
• Replace lid and simmer for another 5 minutes.
• Remove dumplings from the water with a slotted spoon and place into a warm serving dish.
• Sprinkle with cinnamon sugar and the remaining butter.
• Serve and eat immediately.