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60
Easy
Published 2012
These traditional Malay cookies are pastry cakes baked with coconut meringue on one side. When the hertzoggies have cooled apple jelly is spooned over the other side.
Cream butter or margarine, oil and sugar until light and creamy. Add egg yolks, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Stir in lemon essence and naartjie peel. Sift flours and salt, and mix into creamed mixture to make a very soft dough. Roll out to 6 mm thick on lightly floured surface and cut out rounds with fluted biscuit cutter. Place rounds in greased patty pans.
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