soetkoekie, noun

/ˈsutkuki/
Forms:
soete-koekie, soet koekShow more Formerly also soete-koekie, soet koek, soet-koekje, zoete-koekie, zoetenkoekje, zoetkoekie.
Origin:
Afrikaans, South African DutchShow more Afrikaans (earlier South African Dutch zoetekoekje), soet sweet + koek cake + diminutive suffix -ie.
A traditional spiced biscuit. Also partial translation of soet-cookie. See also koekie sense 1.
1891 H.J. Duckitt Hilda’s ‘Where Is It?’ 243Tea Cakes (‘Zoete Koekies’). (Very old Dutch Recipe..).
1899 ‘A Housewife of the Colony’ Col. Hsehold Guide 93Soet Koek, (Dutch) Three lbs flour, 1½ lbs sugar, ground cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg and ginger.
1910 D. Fairbridge That Which Hath Been (1913) 113Juffvrouw wanted very bad to help hand zoete-koekies.
1930 N. Stevenson Farmers of Lekkerbat 78They drank weak coffee out of large tin mugs, and ate rich cakes made of fat and treacle. These soetkoekies reminded Uncle Eloff of his youth.
1955 V.M. Fitzroy Dark Bright Land 243The boer’s wife..patted Martinus’s shoulder and slipped a soet-koekje into his hand, and said he had better call her Tant’ Alida.
1959 M.W. Spilhaus Under Bright Sky 123She approached with a plate of soete-koekies.
1963 A.M. Louw 20 Days 10He helped himself to plenty of cream and sugar and several soetkoekies from the mahogany biscuit barrel.
1972 S. Lynne Glittering Gold 147The tea was delicious, the biscuits crisp home-made soetkoekies, the same little sweet biscuits that once again reminded Nerina of her childhood.
1973 Fair Lady 7 Mar. 23With visions of my Voortrekker ancestors embarking on hazardous journeys with tinfuls of ‘mebos’, biltong, and ‘soet-koekies’, I scratched through my recipe book. Obligingly it yielded a recipe for real ‘Zoetenkoekjes’.
1989 Z. Roos in Sunday Times 3 Dec. (Mag. Sect.) 78The fragrance of soetkoekies baking in ouma’s Aga is one of the most evocative memories of my childhood.
A traditional spiced biscuit. Also partial translation of soet-cookie.
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soetjes, adverbadv.soetriet, nounn.
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