Mimóza szelet, or Mimosa slice, comes from a Hungarian cookbook published back in 1936. It was called A mi süteményeskönyvünk, which means Our...
Mimóza szelet, or Mimosa slice, comes from a Hungarian cookbook published back in 1936. It was called A mi süteményeskönyvünk, which means Our...
There’s nothing better than the smell of warm, freshly baked sweet bread filling the kitchen. This hazelnut sweet bread is soft, buttery and packed...
Creating the recipe of the perfect chocolate sweet bread is one of those projects I have been working on for a few years. With several attempts...
As you might remember, a few weeks ago I already wrote a post about Győri Keksz, the Hungarian cookie factory. I thought the series should be...
Chocolate covered pretzels can be baked at home, there is no wizardry in it. The only thing you need is a handy kitchen gadget, a pretzel cutter...
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.