Culinary practices : preparation techniques and consumption of Basotho cereal breads in Lesotho

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dc.contributor.author Nkhabutlane, Pulane
dc.contributor.author De Kock, Henrietta Letitia
dc.contributor.author Du Rand, Gerrie Elizabeth
dc.date.accessioned 2020-05-20T09:26:46Z
dc.date.available 2020-05-20T09:26:46Z
dc.date.issued 2019-10-24
dc.description.abstract Lesotho is a small country (30,350 sq.km with about 2.233 million population), completely surrounded by the Republic of South Africa. The people of the Kingdom of Lesotho are referred to as Basotho. This study aimed to investigate the culinary practices with regard to traditional Basotho bread, thus serving as a basis for documenting an aspect of Basotho traditional food knowledge. The study was conducted in five districts of Lesotho using focus groups, each consisting of ten housewives in each district, and face-to-face interviews with 253 women respondents who completed a questionnaire related to their knowledge, preparation and consumption of traditional Basotho bread. Recipes for ten traditional Basotho breads were obtained during five focus group sessions. The survey revealed that most of the respondents (99%) prepare bread at a household level using wheat flour. A few (15%) use maize flour and sorghum flour is used by only (5%). The main preparation steps were identified as sorting, cleaning of grains, dry milling and/or wet milling, mixing ingredients, fermentation and cooking. Bread is used for household consumption and social functions, such as weddings and funerals. This paper documents the culinary practices for ten Basotho breads from maize, wheat and sorghum. Research geared to the improvement of the quality characteristics of maize and sorghum breads should be given the highest priority to encourage the use of local ingredients. en_ZA
dc.description.department Consumer Science en_ZA
dc.description.department Food Science en_ZA
dc.description.librarian am2020 en_ZA
dc.description.uri https://journalofethnicfoods.biomedcentral.com en_ZA
dc.identifier.citation Nkhabutlane, P., De Kock, H.L. & Du Rand, G.E. 2019, 'Culinary practices : preparation techniques and consumption of Basotho cereal breads in Lesotho', Journal of Ethnic Foods, vol. 6, art. 12, pp. 1-11. en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn 2352-6181 (print)
dc.identifier.issn 2352-619X (online)
dc.identifier.other 10.1186/s42779-019-0012-8
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/2263/74653
dc.language.iso en en_ZA
dc.publisher BioMed Central en_ZA
dc.rights © The Author(s). 2019 Open Access. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. en_ZA
dc.subject Culinary practices en_ZA
dc.subject Traditional Basotho bread en_ZA
dc.title Culinary practices : preparation techniques and consumption of Basotho cereal breads in Lesotho en_ZA
dc.type Article en_ZA


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