SWEET AND SOUR PORK IN THE SLOW COOKER
Lean pieces of pork cooked in a sweet and sour sauce
1.1 kg lean pork cut into cubes
1 tablespoon soy sauce
½ cup white vinegar
1 cup brown sugar
1 ¼ cups water
1/3 cup water extra
¼ cup cornflour

Place pork in slow cooker. Mix brown sugar and first amount of water into a bowl. Add vinegar and soy sauce. Stir and pour over pork. Cover and cook on Low for approximately 8-10 hours or on High for 4-5 hours. Remove any fat which accumulates during cooking. Stir second quantity of water and cornflour together in a small bowl. Add to the slow cooker. Cook on High for 15 – 20 minutes to thicken. Serve with rice.

CHOCOLATE FUDGE PUDDING IN SLOW COOKER
Chocolate fudge is a favorite recipe for many. The slow cooker produces a great tasting dessert recipe.
1 cup cakeflour
¾ cup brown sugar
firmly packed 2 tablespoons cocoa
2 teaspoons baking powder
¼ teaspoon salt
½ cup milk
2 tablespoons cooking oil
½ teaspoon vanilla
¾ cup brown sugar
firmly packed 2 tablespoons cocoa
1 ¾ cups hot water
Place first group of ingredients in bowl, stir. Add milk, cooking oil and vanilla. Stir well. Turn into Slow cooker. Stir second amount of brown sugar and second amount of cocoa together well in bowl. Add hot water. Mix. Pour carefully over batter in slow cooker. Do not stir. Cover. Cook on High for about 2 hours until wooden pick inserted in centre comes out clean. Serves 6.

Photo:  Benhet Niewenhuis en Diane Roode Hancox

APPLE CAKE IN THE SLOW COOKER
A rich, warm and satisfying apple cake recipe cooked in a slow cooker and easy to make.
½ cup vegetable oil
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
½ teaspoon vanilla essence
1 ½ cups cake flour
¾ teaspoon baking soda
½ teaspoon salt
½ teaspoon cinnamon
¼ teaspoon nutmeg
¼ teaspoon cloves
1 ½ cups diced pared apples
½ cup chopped pecans
Combine oil, sugar, eggs, vanilla, flour, baking soda, salt and spices; mix thoroughly. Mix in apples and pecans. Turn batter into a greases and floured cooker bake pan. Cover bake pan with lid. Set pan in slow cooker. Cover and cook on High 3 – 4 hours. Set pan on wire rack to cool. 8 – 10 servings

OLD FASHIONED POT ROAST
An old fashioned pot roast recipe cooked slow cooker style. This tenderizes the meat and allows the flavours fully to develop.
4 medium potatoes cut into chunks
2 medium onions cut into good size cubes
4 medium carrots, cut into thick slices
1.4 kg boneless beef blade roast (or similar)
½ / 125 ml boiling water
1 teaspoon / 5 ml beef stock powder
2 ½ cups of mixture of frozen beans / peas
For gravy:
2 tablespoons / 30 ml flour
1 teaspoon beef stock powder salt / pepper to taste

Place potato, carrot and onion in bottom of 5 litre slow cooker. Place the roast on top Combine water and stock powder in small bowl, stir. Pour over the top of meat. Cover. Cook on Low for 10 – 12 hours or on High for 5 – 6 hours until tender. Add the peas/ beans. Cover. Cook on High for 15 minutes. Make the gravy in a saucepan with the remaining liquid. Serve with meal. Serves 8 – 10.

HAM AND SPLIT PEA SOUP
FOOD LOVERS RECIPES
Is a hearty meal that is full of flavour and goodness. It is made from cheap ingredients and is easy to prepare.
450 g dried split peas, rinsed
700 g smoked ham hocks/eisbein
1 cup chopped onion
½ cup sliced celery
2 teaspoons salt
6 whole peppercorns
1 bay leaf
1 ½ litres of water Put all ingredients into an electric cooker. Cover and cook on Low 8 to 10 hours. Remove ham hocks and dice meat, reserve ham. Discard bay leaf and peppercorns. Pour soup about one quarter at a time, into an electric blender and blend until smooth. Return soup to cooker, mix in ham and keep hot until serving time.
Produces 6 to 8 servings

BEAN SOUP IN THE SLOW COOKER
FOOD LOVERS RECIPES
Is a cheap meal that goes along way. Beans are high in protein and the ham bone and the additional ingredients enhance the overall taste.
7 cups water
450 g dried navy beans, rinsed
3 medium potatoes, pared
3 medium onions, peeled
2 stalks celery
3 sprigs parsley
1 clove garlic, peeled
1 large meaty ham bone
1 teaspoon salt
½ teaspoon pepper
5 cups water

Warning:
Be careful with beans. Red and white kidney beans contain a toxin which is not destroyed by slow cooking. Beans should be soaked overnight in water and boiled for 15 minutes in fresh water to destroy any toxin.
Soak the beans overnight. Discard the water. Replace with fresh water. Heat the water until boiling, then boil for 15 minutes. Drain. Place the beans in 7 cups of fresh water. Finely chop potatoes, onions, celery, parsley, and garlic. Turn beans and water into a large electric cooker. Add ham bone, seasonings and finely chopped ingredients. Cover and cook on low for 10 -12 hours. Remove bone from soup. Remove any meat from bone, cut into small pieces and mix with soup.
Produces 8 to 10 servings

SAUCY MEATBALLS IN THE SLOW COOKER

Saucy meatballs cooked in a rich ketchup mustard wine sauce slow cooker style. Let the ingredients simmer and all is ready by the time you come home from work.
1 cup ketchup
1 teaspoon prepared mustard
½ teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
1 tablespoon vinegar
2/3 cup red or white wine
2 eggs, beaten½ cup milk
1 cup soft bread crumbs
450 g lean ground beef
1 teaspoon salt
¼ teaspoon seasoned pepper
3 tablespoons minced parsley
2 tablespoons grated onion
½ teaspoon extra Worcestershire sauce
2 tablespoons butter or margarine

Put ketchup, mustard, ½ teaspoon Worcestershire sauce, vinegar, and wine into an electric cooker. Mix.Cover and cook on Low while preparing meatballs. Mix eggs, milk, and bread crumbs in a bowl. Add meat, salt, seasoned pepper, parsley, onion, and remaining Worcestershire sauce, mix lightly. Shape into small balls.Heat butter in a skillet, add meatballs and brown on all sides. Add browned meatballs to sauce in cooker, mix.Cover and cook on Low 4-6 hours.
About 6 servings.

ROMERIGE RYSPOEDING IN DIE PRUTPOT
FOOD LOVERS RECIPES
(4 Porsies)
600 ml melk
50 g rys
50 g strooisuiker
15 g botter
neutmuskaat na smaak

Plaas die melk, rys en suiker in ‘n kastrol en laat kook. Roer deur, Giet in prutpot, plaas klontjies botter bo-op en bestrooi met bietjie neut. Sit die deksel op en kook vir 5-6ure op LAAG. Roer af en toe.

SLOW COOKER BEEF IN MUSHROOM SAUCE
Recipe posted by Rene Truter Wessels
FOOD LOVERS RECIPES
1 kg lean chuck beef, cut in 1 cm pieces
1 can cream of mushroom soup
1 packet onion soup mix
1 can Sprite Zero
*Feel free to bulk this up with any vegetables from your veggie garden.

Put meat in crock pot.
Pour soup and onion soup mix over meat.
Add Sprite.
Cook in crock pot all day on low (or high for at least 4 hours).
Turn off and let sit for 30 minutes before serving on rice.
Makes 8 servings.