Bread pudding is a classic dessert that has been enjoyed for centuries across various cultures. Originating as a frugal way to use up stale bread,...
Bread pudding is a classic dessert that has been enjoyed for centuries across various cultures. Originating as a frugal way to use up stale bread,...
Poor man's cake is actually a bread pudding made with milk, butter, lemon zest and raisins. It's a delicious treat and an even better way to reduce...
Mákos guba is a mystical food: it's dry and soggy, salty and sweet at the same time. It's a dessert, but it's often served as a main dish after...
This bread pudding is actually the summer version of the well known mákos guba. It's similarly made with stale crescents soaked in vanilla custard....
Bonfire stack or máglyarakás is a good example for food recycling: stale bread, crescents or sweet bread (kalács) take on a new meaning in this very...
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.
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.