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Mini salty crescent rolls

Mini salty crescent rolls

While salty crescents are eaten for breakfast, these mini salty crescent rolls are a popular homemade snack, which is usually made when you have...

How to make Hungarian sausage

How to make Hungarian sausage

Winter is the season of pig slauther in Hungary, the time when you wake up at the weekend to the noise of  gas cylinders used to singe the pigs...

Cabbage soup

Cabbage soup

This cabbage soup is my mother's speciality, I even venture to say that no one cooks it in the same way in Hungary. The widespread version prepared...

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.

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.