Nero tea biscuits

by | Oct 7, 2015 | Breads, buns & biscuits

Don’t let yourself be deceived by the name of the biscuits, it has concern neither with the Roman Emperor nor with the CD burning software. In Hungary the Nero name as a collective noun marks the group of tea biscuits that are made of shortcrust pastry and filled with jam or some kind of cream. They can be found in the coffeehouses throughout Hungary, the most popular filling is apricot jam, and top of the biscuits is decorated with melted chocolate.

It’s easy to make these amazing biscuits, the only thing you have to pay attention to is that you have to put only a small amount of jam in the middle of the biscuits and don’t spread it all the way to the edge, because the jam will overflow and the cookies will look messy.

Nero tea biscuits
Nero tea biscuits – photo: zserbo.com

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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.

How to make túró at home

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.