These Cheese Puffs are great served with pre dinner drinks or even as school lunchbox fillers Here is the other recipe I made recently for our visitors from Japan.
Cheese puffs are to me, quite South African. They are usually always found served at school fetes, Church tea’s, weddings and funerals and almost every 'home industry' shop stocks them.
Home industry shops can be found – or used to be found – in every South African town or village. They are basically shops where women from the local area take their delicious homemade baked goods to sell and are very popular for people stocking up for parties or special occasions. (Over the years I have noticed less and less of these home industry shops around and I sincerely hope that they are not a part of South African food culture or 'history' that is dying out.)
Cheese puffs are to me, quite South African. They are usually always found served at school fetes, Church tea’s, weddings and funerals and almost every 'home industry' shop stocks them.
Home industry shops can be found – or used to be found – in every South African town or village. They are basically shops where women from the local area take their delicious homemade baked goods to sell and are very popular for people stocking up for parties or special occasions. (Over the years I have noticed less and less of these home industry shops around and I sincerely hope that they are not a part of South African food culture or 'history' that is dying out.)
Here is the recipe -:
Cheese Puffs (from “The Complete South African Cookbook” by Magdaleen Van Wyk)
1 cup Flour (I always add an extra ¾ cup flour though)
1 cup Cheddar Cheese, grated
1 Egg, beaten
5 tbsp Butter or Margarine, melted (I only use 4 tbsp)
2 tsp Baking Powder
Milk
pinch of Salt
pinch of Cayenne Pepper (I also add 2 tsp mixed dried Herbs)
Pre heat the oven to 200’C/400’F (& turn it off as soon as the cheese puffs go in).
Combine the flour, salt, baking powder, cheese & cayenne pepper thoroughly in a bowl. Combine the beaten egg with enough milk to make up to 1 cup/250 ml & stir the liquid into the dry ingredients. Mix well. Stir in the melted butter or margarine & blend thoroughly.
Place teaspoonfuls of the batter on a greased baking sheet & put in the oven which has been pre heated & then turned off & bake at Gas Mark 6/200’C/400’F until golden, about 10 minutes. Remove from the oven. Allow to cool on the sheet for a few minutes, then remove and cool thoroughly on a wire rack.
