At the table: <em>Bobotie</em>

At the table: <em>Bobotie</em>

The first recipe for bobotie is said to have been in a Dutch cookery book of 1609 and to have been taken to South Africa later in the century by Dutch traders stopping off at Cape Town on their way to and from Indonesia. No further details of the book are ever given, so who knows whether it is true, but it scarcely matters because, wherever its name first appeared, bobotie soon became quintessentially South African.  Indeed, if any single dish c…