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tameletjie S. Afr.|taməˈlɛcɪ, -tʃɪ|
Also tammeletje, tommelaitje, etc.
[perh. f. Afrikaans tabletje small cake of chocolate, sugar, etc.]
A hard toffee, sometimes containing pine nuts.
1838T. Shone Diary 6 Aug. in Voorloper (1976) 788 In the evening I made the Children some tommelatche as a treat on my birthday. 1862― 18 June in Ibid., Made some Tommy Larche for the children. 1862― 17 July in Ibid., Mrs. K. gave me a bason of sugar, to make Tomelah. 1904H. Duckitt Hilda's Where is It? of Recipes 237 Tamelijtjes (a favourite Cape sweet). 1926P. Smith Beadle (1929) 181 Jantje brought with him, secreted about his person, a horrible sticky mess of almond tommelaitjes. 1947L. G. Green Tavern of Seas 65 For the children there would always be tameletjies, the sweets made of sugar, water, eggs, naartjie peel and dennebol pits—sweets that were typical of an earlier Cape Town, but which are not made so often now. 1953Cape Argus Mag. 28 Feb. 3/7 Under a large oak in the main avenue sat a friendly, fat Coloured woman selling sweets—the ‘Tammeletje Woman’ we called her. 1974Cape Times Weekend Mag. 12 Jan. 7 We searched among the pine needles for pips and collected cones. The highlight of our excursions was the tameletjies, a delicious sweet made with butter, brown sugar, syrup, vinegar and water, and the addition of the pips, which my elder sister made for us. |