Aunty Anne’s Family Recipes

20/05/2026

Recipe below: One of Aunty Anne’s Tea Cakes reaches London 🇬🇧ingredients ~> offcourse she transfers her recipes down to her kids and grandchildren ….Hi, I am Reshma Maharaj experimenting with ingredients from my mum Aunty Anne 💝
Recipe:
125g British unsalted butter 🤭
Pinch of salt 🤭🙆‍♀️balance the unsalted butter
200g granulated sugar
2 eggs or 1/2 cup Greek fullcream yogurt (eggless option)
1/2tsp vanilla essence
1/4 tsp bicarb
1tsp baking powder
200g flour sifted
200ml milk
Optional (1mashed banana or coconut)

Oven 180deg to heat
Cream together butter sugar eggs vanilla
Add sifted flour salt baking powder bicarb mix well
Add in milk turn into a batter, set into a baking pan bake on 180deg top and bottom heat settings for about 25mins
Let it cool before serving

Ingredients from Maidenhead stores
Tesco 🇬🇧
Sainsbury's 🇬🇧
Lidl GB🇬🇧
Vanilla Essence 🤭🇿🇦 you do get them in 🇬🇧 need to finish my stock

10/05/2026

Wishing Aunty Anne and all mums a happy and blessed Mother’s Day 2026 💝🥰

07/03/2026

Trying ingredients in London 🇬🇧 using Aunty Anne’s recipe (my mum) came out perfect 👌 Aunty Anne is always dabbling flavours together Tesco Lidl GB @

31/07/2025

Make your own home made Nando’s 🙆‍♀️🇿🇦🇬🇧
Recipe:

5 leg quarters from Tesco / Lidle
Marinate with light spices
1/2 tsp masala of choice
1/4 tsp hurdhee (tumeric powder)
1/4 tsp garam masala (not necessary if you don’t have )
1tsp garlic ginger paste
Mixed herbs
Black pepper
Very little salt (nando sauce has salt be careful adding salt)
Mix together above spices into chicken and cook in oven on roast settings until
Cooked +\- 45mins in oven

Whip together
500ml fresh cream
Medium bottle nando sauce 200ml

Pour over chicken
Place back in oven for 5-6mins
Not too long or cream will dry out

Serve with chips / wedges and buttered roll 🙆‍♀️

01/06/2024

Cape Malay KOEKSISTER
Tried and tested recipe

CAPE MALAY KOEKSISTER:

Quantity 16:

INGREDIENTS:

250ml cake flour
250ml self- raising flour
5ml salt
60ml butter
5ml ground ginger powder
5ml ground cinnamon
5ml ground mixed spice
2.5ml ground cardamom
10ml soft brown sugar
10ml white sugar
7.5ml instant dry yeast
375ml warm water
125ml desiccated coconut
Oil to deep fry

SYRUP:

500ml water
250ml sugar
15ml desiccated coconut
1 piece of naartjie or orange peel

METHOD:

1.In a mixing bowl, combine the flours with salt.Add butter and rub in lightly until it resembles fine bread crumb.
2. Add the remaining ingredients, using warm to form a dough, do not knead.
3.Cover with clingfilm and leave in a warm place for 2 hours to double in size.
4.Turn out on lightly floured surface, dip fingers and knife into flour and use your hands to stretch the dough.
5. Cut into 4cm × 8cm strips and deep fry over meduim heat in a deep saucepan.
6. Insert a fork to check if it's done, and remove quickly one by one and drain in a colander or paper towel.
7. To make the syrup , bring the water, sugar, coconut and the peel to a slow boil in a large saucepan until the syrup start to bubble.
8.Prick each koesister, and then lower in the syrup, add as many Koesisters as the pan can hold.
9.Turn and cookfor 5 minutes on each side or until browned.
10.Remove with a slotted spoon, sprinkle coconut over them and serve.

14/04/2024

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06/11/2023

Diwali 🪔 Baking by Aunty Anne
Here is the Gulaab Recipe Requested

Gulab Jamun
For Syrup
2cups sugar
1cup water
1pod elatchi
In a thick base pot add all ingredients bring to a boil for 5minutes use a spoon, test if syrup is ready by using your thumb and forefinger
if syrup feels sticky it is ready, set aside.

Gulab Jamun
1tin condensed milk
2tbls semolina
30ml ghee/butter (melted)
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp elatchi powder
2 1/2 cups flour

In a mixing bowl add condensed milk, semolina,ghee/butter, klim, e/powder and
b/ powder and mix well then add flour to form a soft dough, break small portion and roll between both your palm to form a roll once you done with dough ,heat oil: butterghee fry till lightly brown 4-5mins , tossing in between so all evenly browns, remove and dip in syrup and roll in coconut

02/11/2023

Burfee by Aunty Anne - enjoy Diwali 🪔 baking
Ingredients:
500g Full cream klim powered milk
155g Nestle cream
20ml Ghee

Syrup:
625ml sugar
375ml water
20ml ghee
5ml rose essence
10ml ground nutmeg and elatchi
Slivered coloured almonds

Method:

1).Mix powdered milk , cream and ghee in a food processor until it resembles fine bread crumbs.
2). Place water and sugar in a heavy based saucepan and cook until syrup reaches one thread consistency, add ghee , rose essence and elatchi and nutmeg.
3). Add prepared milk powder mixture and cook on slow heat stirring continuously until the mixture it thick 15-20 minutes.
4). Pour mixture into a greased tray and decorate with coloured almonds.
5).cut into squares and refrigerate.

30/10/2023

Banana Puri - by Aunty Anne 🪔🪔🪔Diwali 2023
BANANA PURI RECIPE
INGREDIENTS:

2 CUPS CAKE FLOUR
2 TEASPOON BAKING POWDER
2 TABLESPOON MARGARINE
2 TEASPOON LEMON JUICE ADD TO 11/2 CUP ICE WATER
MELTED GHEE FOR SPREADING
CORN FLOUR TO SPRINKLING
1CUP ICING SUGAR TO SIEVE OVER BANANA PURI'S

SYRUP:
1Cup sugar
1/2 Cup water
2 Pods cardamom
1Teaspoon lemon juice

Method for syrup

1).In a saucepan add all of the above ingredients and bring to a boil for 5 minutes or until syrup reaches one thread consistency.
2).Remove saucepan from heat and aside.

METHOD making dough
1. IN A MIXING BOWL ADD FLOUR , BAKING POWDER, MARGARINE RUB TO FORM BREAD CRUMB
2.ADD LEMON WATER LITTLE AT A TIME TO FORM A STIFF DOUGH
3.COVER DOUGH AND LET IT REST FOR 30 MINUTES
4.KNEAD DOUGH AGAIN BREAK 8 PORTIONS
5.ROLL OUT EACH PORTION INTO PAPER THIN DISC
6. Spread melted ghee and sift corn flour over each disc and stack up 4 to 6 disc
7. Then roll into a large roti fold in the sides and roll into long roll before closing of the end paste with water
8.Flatten slightly cut into 2cm size and rol each into 8 cm in length
Fry in deep oil using 2 forks to open and spoon oil onto layers 3 to 4 minutes on each side once ready remove from oil drain excess oil on a wire rack then on tressle paper or clean teacloth to dry over night
9.Then drizzle syrup and coloured almonds and dust with icing sugar.

30/10/2023

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