Although it's an easy-to-make dessert, it took years before I found the perfect recipe of these cottage cheese dumplings (túrógombóc). It was shared...
Desserts
Hungarian apple pie
Hungarian apple pie is my favorite dessert. Its grandeur lies in the recipe's simplicity. Apple and cinnamon wrapped in short pastry - the world's...
Heavenly apricot pie
Sweet. Fragrant. Beautiful. These three words come to my mind when we are talking about apricot. It's one of the most valueable and healthy fruits....
Indiáner
The story of Indiáner relates closely to the Theater an der Wien whose intendant was Count Ferdinánd Pálffy in the first half of the 19th century....
Szaloncukor
Szaloncukor is a traditional Hungarian Christmas candy, a real Hungarikum, which means that this candy is special, unique and only characteristic of...
Fedák Cake – In memory of a great actress
This cake cherishes the memory of Sári Fedák (1879-1955), one of the best known and most successful Hungarian actresses. She was one the greatest...
Home-made Sweet Chestnut Puree
Sweet chestnut (Castanea sativa) belongs to the family of beech species and it's unrelated to water and horse chestnut. Originally native to...
Quince Paste
Quince is one of the most divisive fruits: you love or hate it, but you can't be indifferent to it. 40-50 types of quince trees are grown worlwide,...
Kugler Cake
As I mentioned in the previous post, Henrik Kugler was the renowned confectioner of Budapest in the 19th century. The cream of the Hungarian...
Zserbó / Gerbeaud Slices
Gerbeaud slice or zserbó is named after the world-famous confectionery, Café Gerbeaud, which is situated at Vörösmarty square 7 in Budapest. It's...
Popular recipes
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.
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.