In honour of National Melktert Day on Saturday 27 February, and with a nod to the old colonial style of the great C Louis Leipoldt, here is a recipe based on the famous one in SJA de Villiers’ Cook & ...

There are probably as many precise ways to make a melktert as anyone who has ever made one, yet every one of them will regard theirs as the right way to do it. After a lifetime of only ever having ...

Johannesburg - Milk tart and coffee are two things Charlize Theron made sure of in her busy schedule on Monday when she and her mother relaxed at Tan' Malie se Winkel near Hartbeespoort Dam. "She ...

Let us now praise milk tart — or melktert, if you prefer. Picture this: perched on a nest of puff pastry is a large slice of solid milk tart, not the wobbly stuff you usually get in restaurants and ...

There are some dishes that trigger your childhood and take you right back to family gatherings, an overflowing Sunday lunch table, and smiles all around. The reason for the smiles could very well have ...

I was so chuffed to see KwaZulu-Natal-born chef Calvin Von Niebel’s recipes for “melk tart” and bunny chow published as part of famed chef and cookbook author Yotam Ottolenghi’s regular column in the ...

Beat the butter and sugar together until light and creamy. Add the egg, flour, baking powder and vanilla and mix. Press the pastry into the tart tin and chill for 45 minutes. Preheat the oven to ...