Hilda's Where Is It of Recipes
- Year
- 1891
- Era
- 19th century
- Origin
- South Africa · Africa
- Language
- English
- Category
- Africa
Hilda's Where Is It of Recipes is an English-language Cape Town imprint compiled by Hildagonda Duckitt, drawing on the domestic traditions of the Western Cape's Dutch, Malay, British, and Huguenot settler communities. Among the earliest printed records of Cape cookery, it preserves recipes for bobotie, sosaties, preserves, and other regional dishes, and remains a foundational reference for the study of South African culinary heritage in the late nineteenth century.
Cooking from this book
Cape Brawn (Sult)
Signature dishA signature of the Cape table, this pressed, jellied meat preparation captures the Dutch and Malay influences that define early Cape cookery. Hildagonda Duckitt's compendium became a foundational record of these colonial kitchen traditions, and her treatment of brawn reflects the thrifty, spiced, vinegar-bright style of cooking practised on Western Cape farms in the nineteenth century. Served cold and sliced, it speaks to the book's role in preserving a distinctly South African culinary heritage.
An editorial note on a dish associated with this book, written for The Coquinist. It is not a reproduction of the book's recipe.
