Koe'sisters in the Bo Kaap

Koe'sister Heritage food. Gamieda Jacobs of Lekka Kombuis in the Bo Kaap explains how to make traditional koesisters. Koe'sister or koesister is a traditional Cape Malay pastry often described as a spicy dumpling with a cake-like texture, finished off with a sprinkling of coconut. Cape Malay koe'sisters are prepared from balls of dough including yeast and flavoured with cinnamon, aniseed, ginger, cardamom and dried tangerine skin powder, deep-frying in oil, allowing to cool, then cooking for a minute in boiling syrup and rolling in desiccated coconut. Picture: Henk Kruger/African News Agency (ANA)