Ischler cookies

by | Jan 28, 2016 | Breads, buns & biscuits

Ischler is an Austrian confection, named after the famous spa town Bad Ischl that Franz Joseph I of Austria chose for his summer residence. Bad Ischl lies in the southern part of Upper Austria, in the centre of the Salzkammergut region. One of the town’s sights is the Zauner Confectionery, the “birth place” of Ischler cookies, which was founded by Johann Zauner in 1832 and is still in existence today.

Ischler Törtchen (mini cakes) were created by Richard Kurt in the 1950’s, and they won the gold medal at the World Exhibition in Brussels in 1958. According to the original recipe Ischler consists of two linzer cookies filled with rum-chocolate cream and covered with melted chocolate. The Zauner supplies, furthermore, another type of Ischler with jam and coffee glaze. We Hungarians have taken over the recipe from our Austrian neighbor, of course, but the Ischler preferred by us and can be found in every Hungarian pastry shop is a hybrid of those two recipes: Hungarian Ischler is a jam filled cookie sandwich dipped into melted chocolate.

The dough can be a plain linzer dough or can also be enriched by adding ground walnuts. It’s recommended to choose a sourish jam (red currant, raspberry or apricot), which can balance well the chocolate’s sweetness. Opinions are divided whether the whole cookie sandwich or only the top should be dipped into melted chocolate. It doesn’t matter which one you decide on, it can make no great difference and does not adversely affect the quality.

Ischler cookies
Ischler cookies – photo: zserbo.com
To read the recipe, become a member or log in.
Log in Join Now

0 Comments

Hungarian cottage cheese

This is what Hungarian túró looks like

You often ask me what kind of cottage cheese (or curd cheese or farmer's cheese - call it what you want) I use in the recipes. In Hungary the store-bought cottage cheese is dry and crumbly as you can see in the picture. So if a recipe calls for túró, I mean this type. If you can't obtain túró, you can try to make your own from whole milk. Click on the link below.

Wish list

If you are looking for a Hungarian recipe that hasn't been published on this website yet, let me know, and I'll do my best to post it.

Metric system vs cup

In Hungary metric units are in use, all the recipes on this website are based on this system, so a kitchen scale is necessary. Since I’m not familiar with cup as a measurement unit, I convert grams to cups by using an online converter. The values in brackets, therefore, are only approximate volumes, so, please, double-check them before you start cooking.

Pin It on Pinterest