Salt Sticks (Slané Tyčinky)
Ingredients: frozen pastry dough, eggs, salt, sesame seeds, caraway seeds, cheese
Prep Time: 30 minutes
Today I watched my dad’s friend Janka prepare salt sticks, slané tyčinky. These are tasty snacks that are made from the flaky pastry dough (lístkové cesto, meaning “leafy dough”). In Slovakia, this dough can be purchased frozen in the supermarket. I am not sure how easily available the pastry dough is in the United States. I’ll post the recipe for the dough at a later date.
Roll out the pastry dough (lístkové cesto) on a floured surface. It should be few millimeters thick.
Cut the dough into rectangles about 1 x 3 inches. Place on an ungreased baking sheet. Break few eggs (vajcia), add salt (soľ) and whisk well. Brush the tops with this egg mixture.
Then top with sesame seeds (sézamové semiačka), caraway (rasca) or cheese (syr). Bake at 400F for about 10-15 minutes, until the sticks are golden brown and the dough is flaky (not gummie).
Enjoy. These salt sticks make a great snack. And if you have some left over pastry sheets, you can turn them easily into sweet jam turnovers.
For the folks living in the United States: how easy is it to find this “pastry” flaky dough in the supermarkets? This is the dough resulting in baked goods with the consistency of croissants.
Ahoj Lubos
Ja si mislym ze to je puff pastry sheets.You can find it in the frozen section in the supermarkets
My neighboor from childhood made a pastry called rolishky (I know I’m butchering it badly, but I’m Italian, what can you expect?)with poppyseed or apricot filling. These were bite-sized flaky dough that were heavenly. I know she made the dough at least 24hrs prior to baking. Any chance you know what I’m describing? Christine passed away years ago and her pastries were some of my fondest memories of our times together.
Hi Michelle, I did a google search for rolishky (and rolišky) but I came up short. My dad also didn’t know anything by that name. But they sound quite similar to lekvarové taštičky, which I just posted. Any similarities?
thanks, I’m pretty sure this is it! I’ll try to recreate it and let you know for sure.
Maybe he means ‘rohlicky’ made of sweet dough, filled with different fillings.
Ahoj Lubos! Every large supermarket carries puff pastry in its freezer section.
BTW, I think that Michele’s “rolishky” are what we called “rožky”.