Ingredients: 3 kg plums, pitted 500-800 g sugar (depending on how sweet the plums are and how sweet you like your jam) 1 tbsp cinnamon ½ dl rum 2-3 thick organic lemon wedges (unpeeled) – optional Method: Dice the plums. Arrange layers of plums and sugar in a deep pot and leave for a [...]
An organic and healthy syrup makes part of our grandmothers’ medicine. Prepared during warm months, it helps reduce coughing during the cold period. Our grandmothers were giving this advice: “When coughing, take 1 teaspoon of dandelion syrup several times a day.” Ingredients: 1 kg dandelion flowers 4 l water 4 oranges 4 lemons [...]
Grandma Ivka, my dear colleague Mirko Fodor's mother-in-law, makes the World's best pumpkin strudel! Signed and sealed! It is so tasty and unique that it literally melts in your mouth! I tried to bake it on several occasions, following her instructions word-by-word; however my pumpkin strudel fails by comparison. Yet, I managed to copy-paste another [...]
Ingredients: 5 kg bell peppers 2 kg fresh cabbage, grated 3 l alcohol vinegar 3 l water pepper corns salt Method: Cut out the top parts of the peppers, seed and wash them thoroughly. Salt the cabbage and leave to rest for about 10 minutes. Squeeze the water out using your hands and use [...]
Ingredients: 5 kg small pickling cucumbers 1 horse radish root, cleaned and cut into strips 3 l alcohol vinegar 1 ½ l water pepper corns cumin / dill flower 3 l volume jars Method: Wash the jars thoroughly and place them into an oven pre-heated to 100 °C for 10 minutes. Leave to cool. [...]
This seasoning is best used with poultry and seafood, but also gives extra flavour to risotto and soups Ingredients: zest of 1 lemon, chopped 2-3 cloves garlic, thinly sliced 2 tbsp black peppercorns 1 teaspoon coarse sea salt Line a baking tin with parchment paper. Form an even layer of lemon zest and [...]
Healthy, simple, tasty… Ingredients: 30 elder flowers 3 l water, boiled and cooled ½ kg lemon 65 g citric acid 3 kg sugar 6 ½ dl water Method: Slice the lemon and arrange in a large dish alternatively with elder flowers and citric acid. Pour over with cool boiled water and leave [...]
A caramelised orange can be served with ice cream, cakes and pastries, puddings, pancakes, wafers… Ingredients: 1 orange juice of 1 orange ½ cup sugar ¼ cup water Method: Carefully peel the orange. Slice the peel thinly. Add just enough water to cover the peel. Bring to a boil, pour out the [...]
Fresh buns with home-made apricot jam is the kind of breakfast that has been used by the women in my family for decades to cast spells on their men Ingredients: apricots sugar lemon Method: Carefully peel and pit ripe apricots. Add 1 kg sugar to each kg apricots and leave to rest overnight. [...]
