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Crudites and dip (sticks of raw carrot, cucumber, cherry tomatoes, peppers) and mix together some mayonnaise and sweet chilli dipping sauce, tastes great!!

You could toast some slices of french bread and top with pesto, tomatoes and Parmesan cheese (add some bacon in there if you like)

Mini sausages with honey and mustard glaze.

Slices of melon and parma ham

Sliced tomatoes, mozzarella cheese and basil drizzled with olive oil and balsamic vinegar.

Koeksisters

The secret of the crisp syrupy outside of koeksisters is that they are taken straight from hot oil and dipped into ice-cold syrup. This seals the syrup outside and leaves the inside dryish in contrast.

To make the syrup, mix a liter of sugar, 5 ml cream of tartar, 2.5 ml tartaric acid and 5 ml vanilla essence or grated orange rind or cinnamon, or 1.5 ml ginger with 500 ml of water. Bring mixture to the boil and allow it to simmer for about 10 minutes or until syrupy. Set syrup aside to cool. It is advisable to make the syrup first and leave it overnight in the fridge.

To make the batter, sift 500 ml flour, 10 ml baking powder and 5 ml salt into a mixing bowl. Cut or rub 70 ml of margarine or butter into the dry ingredients. Beat an egg thoroughly and add it to 80 ml of milk. Add the egg and milk to the flour mixture, handling as little as possible. Put the dough in the fridge for at least one hour. Roll out the dough to a thickness of 4 mm. Cut into strips about 8 cm long and 2.5 cm wide. Cut each strip into three lengthwise, leaving one side uncut. Now plait the three pieces and press ends together firmly.

Pre-heat a deep pan and remove syrup from the fridge. The hot fried koeksisters must be dropped into the cold syrup. The syrup will warm up about halfway through, so divide the syrup into two bowls. Deep-fry koeksisters until golden brown, drain for a few seconds on absorbent paper and dip into cold syrup.

Look in the company's coming appetizer book. There are alot of great and easy snacks.

Deviled Eggs

Chips and Homemade Dip

Spinach Dip

Mini Quiches

Crackers dressed with cold cuts, cheese and garnish

-Small dainty sandwiches, Curried egg, cucumber, cheese and ham, just things that seem quite sophisticated but are very simple

-A cheese and cracker platter, with assorted cheeses and dips,

and also things like gherkins and pickled onions

-Fruit salads are always fantastic

-also probabaly something sweeter, maybe a pastry or chocolate-y something you can pick up from your local bakery

=D good luck with the gathering.

Buy a tub of flavored cream cheese, or cheese spread if you're up to it, and one whole french baguette. Put the spread in the middle of a large bowl and rip the bread into bite sized chunks around it. Very easy, looks nice, goes well with just about anything, and tastes pretty good. I've noticed not many people will bring bread to a party so you'll never get the "Oh, another bag of chips" look.

cheese and crackers with quince past

olives

celery with cream cheese in the little groove thing lol

saladas with Vegemite.

smoked salmon and capers on biscuits.

a variety of dips

dried fruits

nuts

chips

good luck

simple and basic usually work pretty well for me!

vegetable tray-baby carrots, broccoli, sugar snap beans, cherry tomatoes and ranch dip

cheese tray-cheddar and pepper jack with wheat crackers

hummus with bagel or pita chips

mini pizzas

CHEEESE CUBES ON STICKS

but whatever u do u better not serve pickles.

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