Posts Tagged ‘honey’

Decorated Honey Cookies (Medovníky)

This recipe was sent to me by Margarete Minar, the author of Foreigner’s Guide to Slovakia. Margarete moved to Slovakia when she was 25 to teach English. Although at first she found the life there difficult, she quickly fell in love with Slovakia. “Moving to Slovakia turned out to be one of the most rewarding experiences of my life”, says Ms. Minar. “Now that I have married a Slovak (yes, I met him while I was working there) and have a bunch of wonderful Slovak relatives, I constantly find things that demonstrate the ‘foreignness’ that I still experience, even though Read the Rest…

Honey Slices (Medové Rezy)

Dough: 600g flour, 150g powdered sugar, 2 tbsp cocoa, 3 tbsp honey, 50g (~half a stick) butter, 3 eggs, 2 teaspoons baking soda Filling: 0.5L milk, 5 tbsp corn starch, 250g butter, 1 shot rum, vanilla extract, 1 jar of jam Topping: 200g dark chocolate, 50 g butter Prep Time: Two or three hours of actual work In this recipe, which comes from Varecha.sk, I show you how to make medové rezy, or honey slices. I have never made anything like this before, heck, it was just few weeks ago that I baked my first ever cake. If you had Read the Rest…

Mid-afternoon Snack (Olovrant)

Ingredients: bread rolls, butter, honey, jam, hot chocolate Prep Time: 2 minutes You can use the freshly baked rolls (čerstvé rožky) anywhere you would use regular bread. They go great with soups, spreads, and you can even turn them into a butter and cheese sandwich. Another of my favorites is to top them with butter and honey or jam, and make a quick mid-afternoon snack. Such a mid-afternoon meal is called olovrant in Slovak. I feel almost silly posting this simple dish, but then, it shows some differences between Slovak and American cuisines. In Slovakia, we don’t have peanut butter. Read the Rest…