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The Cape recipe page is a cookery page on Cape and South African food and wine featuring a recipe or two local to that region from our Cape cook book and some interesting info about the various peoples of the Cape. My name is Brian Gough and my wife (Barbara) and I have come across from Cape Town in South Africa to settle here in England, and with both of us being very keen on cooking, we decided to include a cookery page on our website featuring recipes which will give our visitors an idea of the types of dish that the wide diversity of people in the Cape Province of South Africa enjoy. |
We have added a basic history of the various towns and areas that make up the Cape Province, as well as something about the various peoples that populate the Cape. I will change the articles from time to time in order to take our visitors on a historical and, with the the help of a few pictures, a scenic tour of the Cape. We will also, of course, be scouring our cape recipe books in order to change the recipes on a regular basis. The Cape Recipe Pages is in 4 parts.
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Part 1-Some history of the Cape. We embark on a picturesque and informative tour of the Cape Province. The journey through the Cape Province will continuously be in progress so visitors are encouraged to return from time to time in order to follow the trip with us. I have put an area map of the Cape Province right at the bottom of this page, it is numbered by area so it can help our visitors to follow the journey through the Cape Province. So far we have spent some time in and around Cape town (area's 1 & 2), covered the mountain area of the Western Cape and the apple growing region (area 4) and then moved slightly west of that region to the Somerset West and Stellenbosch wine growing areas (area 4). We have now also covered the Southern Cape (area 8) and the "Garden Route", area 9. Now we look at area 10, the 'Little Karoo'. Lastly we went up the West Coast to Namaqualand area 15. Now a little Story for you! THE GHOST WITH THE RED-HOT HANDSHAKE
The old homesteads of the Cape are rich in folk-lore and tales of phantoms, ghosts and other supernatural squatters. One of the most colourful is the story of the apparition said to haunt the Brakfontein farm near Wellington-the ghost with the red-hot handshake. The legend goes that about 1880 a former owner died suddenly and the place was taken over by his brother-in-law, an unpleasant character who began to make life difficult for the dead man's widow and daughter. The girl was being courted by a young man frorn Wellington and one night, after spending a few pleasant hours with his sweetheart, he was untethering his horse in the dark beyond the edge of the veranda when he became aware of a figure looking at him. Feeling an eerie chill, the young man asked the stranger to identify himself. The shadow answered that he was the former owner. 'But he's been dead for a year,' the youth gasped. The ghost chuckled and moved into the light. There was no doubt who it was. 'I want you to give a message to my brother-in-law,' said the ghost. 'Tell him to treat my wife better or it will be the worse for him. To prove to you that 1 mean it, here is my hand-but first, wrap your saddle blanket around your own hand.' The young man was puzzled, but did as he was told. The ghost then firmly shook his hand and, as it did so, there was a puff of smoke and a strong smell of burning. The next instant the ghost had vanished, but it had left behind a distinctive calling card-the imprint of a hand burned into the blanket. This was enough to send the brother-in-law packing, and the family was left to live in peace. Another strange story is told about the original house of Paarl Diamant on the west side of Paarl Mountain. The owner of this farm in the 1920S was visited in a dream by a ghost which told him of a treasure of old coins hidden in the walls of the house. When he awoke, the owner did some digging and found the hoard. But he foolishly ignored the ghost's plea that the money should be returned to the man who had formerly lived in the house and from whom the ghost had stolen it. The ghost kept returning and repeating its plea, so the man moved house. But by this time technology had caught up with him. It was now the age of the telephone and the man became plagued with phantom calls about the money. At last, his nerves shattered, he sent what was left of the money to the rightful owner and the persistent ghost ceased its haunting. These pages will never be static but indeed I will endeavour to add to and develop them all the time. If you have any comments please contact me.  |
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