Showing posts with label bokkenvolle. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bokkenvolle. Show all posts

12 Sept 2007

Bokkenvolle...recipe!

I posted earlier about this "Bokkenvolle"....and I promised I will come up with the recipe....well, I haven't made it myself yet, but one thing I can say about the Bokkenvolle....this is brilliant! You won't believe how delicious it is...!!
You need: brown sugar, sticky type..in South Africa you get "tricale" brown sugar, the sticky type
cream
bread dough



I found this bread recipe...try it...again not one I have tried out...



5 cups white flour
2 tablespoons yeast (or 2 x 7g pkts)
2 tablespoons sugar
1 teaspoon salt
2 cups warm-hot water
1/4 cup cooking oil

Put 4 cups of the flour, yeast, sugar and salt into large bowl.
Pour in hot water and oil and mix until combined- it will be sticky.
Add the remaining flour in increments until dough is no longer sticky.
Knead for about 5 minutes until dough is elastic and smooth.
Place dough back into bowl and cover with a damp teatowel and let it rise until double its size- about 1/2 hour.




Now for the Bokkenvolle!

Roll small pieces of dough..like golf balls. Put in oiled oven dish/pan....
Cover the rolls with brown sugar...be generous with the sugar! Don't worry
if there's some at the bottom of the dish/pan....
Pour cream in the dish, about 1cm thick in the bottom, at least...
Bake in hot oven...180 C....for an hour+


It takes longer than the plain bread rolls due to the cream...it gets soaked up by the breadrolls.
Serve and enjoy!!

Bokkenvolle!



This word...Bokkenvolle ...sounded almost like a swear word to me when I heard it the first time...but...this is these "rolls" name!! I have a recipe...so ..keep looking if you want to know more...I tried to find out where the name comes from..without any success! I was quite surprised how nice they are!!


In Dutch..."bokken"...is like a goat...and "volle"...must be like "full"...but I can't see any relation.......between the two words in this context...in Afrikaans "goat" is a "bok"...that is just a plain goat...NOT a Springbok!!! haha...and "vol" is "full"...so, why this name "Bokkenvolle"...NO idea! It was the first time ever I heard of it or have it with food...during August whilst on holiday...any South African reading here...tell me if you know more!!