Culinary Inspirations: Rafeah’s wonderful wajik

Intan (right) managed to interpret her mother’s imprecise measurements for wajik into a recipe to be shared with family and friends. Photos: KALSOM TAIB

MENTION wajik and my husband, Shafee’s face would light up. Pulut wajik is his favourite kueh, one that his mother, Rafeah, used to make and sell when his father worked in Caledonia Estate to supplement their income.

After the war in 1945, Shafee’s father, Yahaya, worked as a ‘boy’ (waiter in today’s context) at the Caledonia Club within the Caledonia Estate, just about 5 kilometres from Nibong Tebal in Seberang Perai Selatan.