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Potjiekos has been part of the South African culture for centuries, in fact since the days of the first settlement at the Cape when food was cooked in a black cast-iron pot hanging from a chain over the kitchen fire. Later the black pot accompanied intrepid pioneers who moved into the country.
As the Victorian era unfolded, so the delights of the bubbling black pot made way for magnificent oven roasts, and later still the traditional braaivlieis (barbecue) in the 1950’s and 60’s. The pot’s re-emergence in the late 1970’s coincided with the escalation of meat prices and it was then that food magazines and books started publishing articles on the art of Potjiekos cooking.
It is thought that the ‘Potjie’ came from the Dutch ancestors of the South Africans, who brought with them heavy iron cooking pots which hung from hooks over the open hearth. These cast-iron pots retained heat well and could be kept simmering over a few embers. Rounded, potbellied pots were used for cooking tender roasts and stews as they allowed steam to circulate instead of escape through the lid. The flat-bottomed iron pans heated more quickly and were used to bake crusty loaves of bread in Dutch ovens.
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