Recipes & Home Cooking
Recipes & Home Cooking
A Hungarian Christmas classic. The apricot jam and walnut filling is encased in crumbly pastry layers, finished with a smooth chocolate top. My whole close and extended family expects these at Christmas since I first made them a couple of years ago.…
Delicate filled Christmas cookies with a generous dusting of icing sugar. They keep very well for days or even over a week so can be made ahead of the festivities and stored in a tin for friends and visitor drop…
This lovely Hungarian dessert is made of the crescent shaped Hungarian bread-roll “kifli”, but can be substituted with plain bread rolls, brioche buns or sliced milk loaf. It is a favoured pudding at the Christmas festivities as the plentiful poppy…
These scones are fluffy and light and make a pretty good party snack or weekend treat. The recipe could be extended or changed easily, could use extra sliced olives, chopped herbs, maybe finely chopped sun dried tomatoes for a Mediterranean…
This heavenly family dessert is living a bit of a renaissance these days in Hungary even appearing on the dessert list of some posh restaurants. Made with milk eggs sugar and vanilla, it is a chilled crème anglaise with a…
Another sour cherry summer recipe following my earlier post on the chilled sour cherry soup. Ingredients 800 gram (~1.8lb) sour cherries 200 gram (7 oz) pastry/plain flour 200 gram (1.7 stick) butter at room temperature 2 medium eggs 250 gram caster sugar…
A nice fluffy warming vanila delight best served warm, with some apricot jam.
I even surprised myself how well these dumplings turned out. They are warmingly filling, a savory-sweet dish that is a hot favourite in many if not all Hungarian kitchens. It’s often offered in restaurants on their dessert list but also…