Posts Tagged ‘cottage cheese’

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…

Cottage Cheese Buns (Tvarohové Buchty)

Ingredients: 400g flour, 1 egg, 3 yolks, 50g powdered sugar, 1 stick of butter, ground lemon peel, 2dl milk, salt, extra butter for greasing Prep time: 30 minutes to make dough, several hours to let dough rise, at least half an hour to make the buns, 1 hour for baking I am not sure how to translate the word buchty. Buns comes probably the closest, although when I think of buns, I tend to think of hamburger buns. But I definitely know how to describe them: delicious! In Slovakia, we don’t bake cookies. Instead, we bake buchty. So when you Read the Rest…