Puffadders on the Fire Bowl

Technically known as ‘boerwurs’ – the sausage of the Boer, the Dutch farmers who settled in South Africa – these long coiled sausages were called ‘puffadders’ when I was a child on safari. Out in the bush they would be made with the stone-ground meat and offal of kudu, impala, bushbuck or kongoni, which was combined with spices and stuffed through the hollow of a bamboo branch with an intestine stuck crudely on the end like a condom. The mixture would be pushed down the tube with a stick an