Posts Tagged ‘cinnamon’

Bread Pie (Žemlovka)

Ingredients: 2lb apples (or other fruit), 1L (4 cups) milk, 4 eggs, 10 bread rolls, 1lb farmer’s cheese (about 2 cups), powdered sugar, handful of raisins, butter, bread crumbs for dusting the baking pan Prep Time: 30 minutes + about 1 hour for baking Here is the recipe for žemlovka. The word žemla means bread roll so the closest I could come up with when translating the name of this delicacy was “bread pie”. This probably is not a bad name, given that it’s made with pieces of bread instead of dough. This is the closest food item we have Read the Rest…

Farmer’s Cheese Cake (Tvarožník)

Ingredients: leavened dough, farmer’s cheese, sugar, milk, cinnamon, vanilla sugar Prep Time: 30 minutes (if you have the dough ready) Tvarožník is a cake made using tvaroh or farmer’s cheese. It is basically cottage cheese from which all the juice (whey) has been squeezed out. My grandma made this cake from the same sweet leavened dough she used to make orechovník (nut roll) and makovník (poppy seed roll). Start off with making the filling. You can do this while the dough is rising. Combine the farmer’s cheese (tvaroh), two tablespoons of sugar (cukor, to taste), about half a cup of Read the Rest…

Grits with Cocoa and Cinnamon (Krupicová Kaša)

Ingredients: milk (2 cups), 6 tablespoons of grits, ground cinnamon, cocoa, sugar, unsalted butter Prep time: 20 minutes When I was growing up in what used to be Czechoslovakia (the Czech Republic and Slovakia now), people never ate cereal for breakfast. I don’t think anything like cereal was even available. Some folks ate oatmeal (ovsené vločky), but for most the typical breakfast consisted of a raisin bread with jam, bread with a meat spread (pašťeka), hemendex, or, the meal I show in this post, sweet grits with cocoa and cinnamon, krupicová kaša (meaning grits porridge). If you never had grits, Read the Rest…