Category: Recipes
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Christmas Pudding
Ok, so Christmas Pudding isn’t actually a New Zealand thing but as far as I’m concerned, it’s not Christmas without one. Christmas Pudding doesn’t seem to be that popular here as other deserts like trifle or pavlova but that makes complete sense. This ancient English traditional Christmas dish is booze laden, hearty, mostly served hot,…
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Kiwi Onion Dip
I had bought the ingredients to make this quintessential kiwi condiment over a month ago but if I’m honest, I wasn’t too keen on making it. I couldn’t see how three random ingredients could make anything that would actually taste nice. Kiwi Onion Dip was invented in New Zealand in the early 1960’s by a…
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Lolly Cake
Lolly Cake or Lolly Log is a New Zealand cake/confectionary that uses sweets (lollies) as one of the ingredients. It’s probably worth me explaining here that word ‘lollies’ in New Zealand doesn’t mean a boiled sweet on a stick. It’s a generic term for what we would call ‘sweets’ or ‘sweeties’. The exact origins of…
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Ginger Crunch
This semi-baked slice has legendary status in our household. I have made this countless times, before we moved here thanks to the Edmonds cookbook my mother-in-law gave me as a present one year. I’m pretty sure I even made Ginger Crunch as a birthday present for my husband one year when we were particularly strapped…
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Matcha Salted ‘Caramel’ Slice
When you go into a café in New Zealand and have a look at what’s on offer behind the glass in the refrigerated cabinet next to the till (there will always be one), you’ll find at least one kind of slice. Neither a cake nor a biscuit, this popular tea time treat is quintessentially kiwi.…
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