Dear Ben! The history sound like the better! Something about AD1250 the Dutch settlers arrived to my vicinity. Suposedly the William was a leader, they called village „Wilamowice”. Strange but ours. They survived upon centuries, until communism came. Anything other then a Soviet couldn’t survive. But they survived! Polish Boers! Copy and paste „Wymysoryś”. Back to the pots. In Poland we use two kinds of them. The iron cast, three legged, so called „kociołek węgierski” Hungarian kettle and wrought steel „kociołek cygański” Gypsy kettle. Hung on the tipod over fire. I suppose You can make classic Polish recipe. „DUSZONKI”: First of all you should scrub potjie with the bekon. Next you dress the potjie with cabbage leaves. Then layered, sausauge bekon well cut, onion, sliced, a solid whist of pottatoes, sliced raw, some garlic, some lebiodka (oregano), pinch of pepper and salt... Again and again. Untill pot is full. Or until storm arrive... A different story ⚡️😅 BTW: in’80 thies I couldn’t buy coriandes seeds. No „Safari Drive”! 😋
Thanks Rob. Looking forward to keeping everyone updated with Potjiekos recipes. Hope you can keep getting great ideas and cook amazing dishes. Please do keep us updated as to what your thoughts are.
In the US, we have something similar called a dutch oven. It is a lot flatter, but it still has three legs. These went west with trappers, cowboys, pioneers, and sold to the natives. You can see that it has common ancestry with the potkie!
+Guy Lewis Interesting Guy, do you have some contacts there in the US that we can connect with and show our recipes to? Perhaps create some dishes that will appeal to the US market?
Mr. Kruger, would know anything about Potjie Pots that have the name in the casting "By Action Africa". I purchased a #14 BY ACTION AFRICA many years ago and want to know the history before passing it on to my grandchildren. Mainly is it African or a knock-off or import. Thank you and anyone else who wants to reply
ben kruger it is may be a little late but here is a link of the orphan-boy who found the potjie of hutspot with white beans instead of potatoes they where very rare in the netherlands . sorry the link is in dutch nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornelis_Joppenszoon
Hi my name is Charles Newton born in ladysmith natal 14/ 04/ 1971 and lived lived on a farm called Sandford currently where the Qandingesi dam is today. Long story short in the 1700 ds a Scottish family went to try there luck during the gold boom at the veal. Now as early pioneers they were iron mongers from Falkirk Scotland United kingdom. So upon there travellings on the trek old man Newton noticed how awkward it was for the woman to cook was because most of the time boiling water was a tricky business let a lone making a pot of stew on a open fire only having rocks to balance your pans apon. Which often resulted in the fire being put out or an argument for whomever was going to start it again, now remember lions and leopard hyenas alike roamed the bush hence when they parked up for the night they circled their wagons in a larger to protect what needed , cattle , horses mules and them selves. Any how! so I think his name was Edgar Newton decided to help out by making these cast iron three pronged pots as they were more suitable for the uneven conditions one had to cook on. Think they called them the k...r pot because they were so saught after by the indigenous people alike .ok gotta go. Happy cooking and apologizes for the lazy punctuation take care Charlie
Thank you for the videos, Ben. You will be missed.
I don't understand this comment. I am new to the channel. What do you mean by "Missed" ?
@@tonyrico897 he passed away
Cheers, eh? Thanks, Ben, for all you do. Lekker!
Dear Ben!
The history sound like the better! Something about AD1250 the Dutch settlers arrived to my vicinity. Suposedly the William was a leader, they called village „Wilamowice”. Strange but ours. They survived upon centuries, until communism came. Anything other then a Soviet couldn’t survive. But they survived! Polish Boers! Copy and paste „Wymysoryś”.
Back to the pots. In Poland we use two kinds of them. The iron cast, three legged, so called „kociołek węgierski” Hungarian kettle and wrought steel „kociołek cygański” Gypsy kettle. Hung on the tipod over fire.
I suppose You can make classic Polish recipe. „DUSZONKI”: First of all you should scrub potjie with the bekon. Next you dress the potjie with cabbage leaves. Then layered, sausauge bekon well cut, onion, sliced, a solid whist of pottatoes, sliced raw, some garlic, some lebiodka (oregano), pinch of pepper and salt... Again and again. Untill pot is full. Or until storm arrive... A different story ⚡️😅 BTW: in’80 thies I couldn’t buy coriandes seeds. No „Safari Drive”! 😋
Great work... Best of luck and super big like.
Tx Ben, Have considering my hand @ Potjiekos - but haven't known where to start. I'm looking forward to this - I'll call it my Portjiekos for dummies!
Thanks Rob. Looking forward to keeping everyone updated with Potjiekos recipes. Hope you can keep getting great ideas and cook amazing dishes. Please do keep us updated as to what your thoughts are.
In the US, we have something similar called a dutch oven. It is a lot flatter, but it still has three legs. These went west with trappers, cowboys, pioneers, and sold to the natives. You can see that it has common ancestry with the potkie!
+Guy Lewis Interesting Guy, do you have some contacts there in the US that we can connect with and show our recipes to? Perhaps create some dishes that will appeal to the US market?
Try the International Dutch Oven Society, IDOS for short. They have quite a website, and they'll be more than happy to answer questions.
Ben Kruger you and Cowboy Kent Rollins should chat
Lekker man!
I have to ask, what is the song playing on the beginning of the video?
Its a afrikaans song dont know the name tho
But i think if you search potjiekos you will find it
Cant find out anywhere
A bit off topic, what is the name of the song in the backgound ?
I’m trying to find that too.
Same same
Mr. Kruger, would know anything about Potjie Pots that have the name in the casting "By Action Africa". I purchased a #14 BY ACTION AFRICA many years ago and want to know the history before passing it on to my grandchildren. Mainly is it African or a knock-off or import. Thank you and anyone else who wants to reply
unfortunately he passed away back in may 2021
ben kruger it is may be a little late but here is a link of the orphan-boy who found the potjie of hutspot with white beans instead of potatoes they where very rare in the netherlands .
sorry the link is in dutch nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornelis_Joppenszoon
Thanks so much for the comment. I will check it out
And by the way, my home language is Afrikaans which is derived from Dutch, so I understand Dutch quite well!
Can you provide some references to prove any of this history?
Hi my name is Charles Newton born in ladysmith natal 14/ 04/ 1971 and lived lived on a farm called Sandford currently where the Qandingesi dam is today. Long story short in the 1700 ds a Scottish family went to try there luck during the gold boom at the veal. Now as early pioneers they were iron mongers from Falkirk Scotland United kingdom. So upon there travellings on the trek old man Newton noticed how awkward it was for the woman to cook was because most of the time boiling water was a tricky business let a lone making a pot of stew on a open fire only having rocks to balance your pans apon. Which often resulted in the fire being put out or an argument for whomever was going to start it again, now remember lions and leopard hyenas alike roamed the bush hence when they parked up for the night they circled their wagons in a larger to protect what needed , cattle , horses mules and them selves. Any how! so I think his name was Edgar Newton decided to help out by making these cast iron three pronged pots as they were more suitable for the uneven conditions one had to cook on. Think they called them the k...r pot because they were so saught after by the indigenous people alike .ok gotta go.
Happy cooking and apologizes for the lazy punctuation take care Charlie