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Show WHAT BOER FIGHTERS EAT. When the Boer war broke out military mili-tary critics prophesied that the Boers would be weakest In their commissariat, commissa-riat, and would have to give up fighting fight-ing for lack of food. The prediction hasn't been verified. The Boer's "biltong," "bil-tong," his mainstay on the veldt, is the most sustaining form of dried meat known. "Zoete koekies" may be unfamiliar un-familiar to the readers. Call them "sweet cookies." . An old Dutch sweetmeat called "koesisters" is made of flour, sugar, spices, eggs, butter and yeast, dipped in syrup and dried. "Honing koek" is just honey cake, very sweet and rich, and flavored with brandy. "Mebos" is a. common preparation of salted apricots. apri-cots. They are dried in the sun, then Battened and the stone extracted, crystallized crys-tallized sugar and salt sprinkled over them, and they are stored for winter use. An excellent chicken pie is called "ouderwetse pastel." It is an elaborate elab-orate dish, with spices, onions, wine, lemon, eggs and ham. A Boer dish called "sasaties," or "kabobs," is from Ei Malay origin. "Swartzuir" is made of ribs of mut-con mut-con with spices. A sweet is "tamelett-jes," "tamelett-jes," which is principally sugar flavored fla-vored with almonds and tangerine peel. "Blatjang" is a hot condiment with chillies, an agreeable adjunct of cold meat. "Bobotee" is an Indian i curry, and "brood kluities" are bread dumplings. "Boonjes bredee" is a dry ; bean stew. A "bredee" is a sort of 1 stew in which anything may he put : with advantage quinces, for instance, or tomatoes. "Gesmoorde hoender" Bounds rather appalling, but it is nothing noth-ing more than chicken fried with onions, on-ions, spice and chillies. "Wentel jeeft-jes" jeeft-jes" are pancakes, but crisper and fla-vorsome. fla-vorsome. "Wafels" are wafers. New York World. |
