A mieliebread memoir
Sep 25, 2020
3 minutes
Bathandwa Nkambule, food blogger and pop-up restaurant host @theearthycook
When my mom married, she was very dedicated to being a housewife. She was always baking, and used to make mieliebread – or isonka esinombona as she calls it. Sometimes she would use sweetcorn, sometimes roasted corn, and sometimes she would steam it instead of baking it.
The recipe varies, even within cultures. My dad is Swati and my mom is Xhosa, and within each tribe everyone has their own way of preparing it. Where
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