krakeling, noun

/ˈkrɑːkələŋ/
Plurals:
kraakelen, krakelinge.
Origin:
Afrikaans, DutchShow more Afrikaans (from Dutch, ‘pretzel’; cf. British English cracknel).
A traditional biscuit made from a sweet dough and shaped into a figure eight.
1891 H.J. Duckitt Hilda’s ‘Where Is It?’ 265‘Zoete Krakeling’ (Sweet Cracknels). (Old Dutch.)...Roll out and make in shapes like the figure 8, and bake on flat pans for twenty minutes.
1950 H. Gerber Cape Cookery 37Krakelinge. Roll out puff pastry to about ¼ inch thickness. Cut it into strips and form these into the figure 8.
1951 L.G. Green Grow Lovely 72The Malay quarter, source of the cookery secrets that have survived the centuries. There..the origin of many of the old Cape sweets and pastries..may be traced, the tammeletjies and bossuiker, kraakelen and sugared mebos.
1977 Fair Lady 8 June (Suppl.) 6Krakelinge...To shape each krakeling, gently pinch and fold long edges of one strip of dough together...When all of the krakelinge have been shaped, spread beaten egg-white mixture lightly over tops with a pastry brush.
1991 L. Popper Sunday Times 20 Oct. (Mag. Sect.) 30Elegant krakelinge — traditional South African biscuits — have graced our tea tables since the Cape’s early days...Cut strips and form each strip into a figure 8.
A traditional biscuit made from a sweet dough and shaped into a figure eight.
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