Nibbles. A name fondly given to the treats we reward ourselves with when we need it most.
Winter has everyone looking for the perfect combination of eating lekker, but also eating healthy and not packing on the vetrolletjies.
Bakeries and shops selling koeksisters, snowballs, milktart and cookies usually make a killing during winter when everyone just wants to chow lekker comfort dite and stay warm.
When I was younger, the ladies in my ouma’s road in Lentegeur each had a specialty treat.
We were a vrag kids from a few streets who played together and when baking season, aka winter, started, we would look forward to the delicious aromas of milktart, soup and baked bread wafting from the kitchen windows.
Depending on whose turn it was to treat, that’s the house we’d go play a game of drie blikkies or kennetjie at.
We would make just enough noise for the Auntie to come out skelling, making sure she knows we are there.
We would apologise profusely, then ask what smells so lekker and the Auntie’s heart would melt and then she’d give each of us a stukkie or bakkie of her lekker dite.
It was always a win-win for us.
But alas, niemand speel meer innie pad nie. It’s far too dangerous what with all the gang shootings, so now we must make treats for our kids ourselves.
Old school (and cheap) recipes like bread pudding, custard and sago pudding never go out of fashion and this week we show you how you too can win over kids’ hearts with lekker dite.
Recipes you can try at home:
Feriel Sonday’s Walnut, pecan nuts & Pistachios super moist Banana loaf