I had decided to make "vetkoek" as my traditional South African dish and Amy had decided to make Melktert for her dish...YUM! However, both of us were also going to go to our kummi families on Saturday afternoon so we decided to bake a Melktert for our Kummi families. After lunch we went to Amy's flat to make the Melkterts.
Amy and I pressing the Melktert dough base into the baking trays.
Our final product! The only thing missing was still the cinnamon to be dusted on top of the cakes.
After our hard work, Petra came by and we enjoyed some tea and milktart cup cakes (we had also made three small milktart cupcakes from some leftover milktart dough and filling.)Baking Task 2:
I had prepared the vetkoek dough earlier in the morning as it still had to stand and rise so all we had left to do by the afternoon was to shape them into small balls, deep fry them and fill them.
Hmmmmmmmmmm!!! Petra was the "vetkoek ball former" and I was the "vetkoek deep fryer...
while Amy was the "vetkoek filler"...
Karolina (my Polish roommate) and Daria (Polish) joined us later in the kitchen, they were preparing a traditional Polish dish of potato dumplings for the international dinner party.Once the vetkoek was ready I popped into my neighbours to see how their preparations were going...
Patrick, Sarah and Daniel had baked a delicious "Zwiebelkuchen" (onion tart).Across the corridor from us, Ben (Australian) and Marcus (German) were preparing schnitzel and lemmingtons...
My last visit was at Wolfi's flat on the top floor. Sarah and I decided to "pop in" when we heard that Wolfi's preparations were not going so well...Wolfi's "plan B cake" ( thanx to Sarah and I, and with some improvisation we were able to "revive" the cake after "plan A cake" not "working out" as expected...)
Finally at 6pm basically our whole building met outside the flat and we all walked (food in hand) to the party venue (a 5 minute walk from our flat). There were five tables filled of all different foods imaginable and I have never tasted such a variety of food before.
Wolfi's invention: Austrian farmers biscuit!
Our always "ever so photogenic boys": Daniel and Wolfi posing for the camera...
Wolfi, Petra and Amy chatting and laughing away...
"After party" and chilling at Kaio...
After the dinner party, Petra, Wolfi, Sarah, Patrick and I decided to go to Kaio (a local hang-out place/pub a few hundred meters from where we had the dinner party), we also joined up with some other exchange students inside...
Wolfi and I downed a Salmiakki shot...didn't think I would like it becuase it was liqourice flavoured and everyone warned me that it was really vile......but I ended up finding the taste not that bad!;)
We had an especially heated topic (excuse the pun!) about suana's and my fears about mixed sauna's...
...other topics of conversation ranged from "what to wear when climbing" to "salmiakki sweets" (salt ammonuim chloride candy- only the finnish could possibly invent something like that!)
