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Slavski Kolač Славски колач (Sweet Bread)

This is a sweet bread, usually baked with a cross or other religious symbol made out of dough on top. It is served during Slava, a special day for feasting and sharing with friends. (Slava is a religious time to commemorate the day that each Serbian family’s ancestors became Christians in the Sixth Century. Each family has a patron saint.)

Kolach

Slavski Kolač Славски колач (Sweet Bread)

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Course bread, Dinner, Kolach, Kolache, Lunch
Cuisine Serbian, slavic, The Balkans, The former Yugoslavia

Ingredients
  

  • 2 cakes yeast
  • ¼ cup lukewarm water
  • ¼ cup shortening
  • ½ cup sugar
  • 5 cups sifted flour
  • 1 tsp. salt
  • 2 eggs beaten
  • 1 cup milk scalded
  • 1 tsp. grated lemon rind
  • Juice of 1 lemon
  • 1 egg yolk slightly beaten

Instructions
 

  • Soften yeast in warm water.
  • Add shortening, sugar, and salt to scalded milk.
  • Add yeast, eggs, lemon rind and juice, and enough flour to make a stiff batter.
  • Beat well.
  • Add more flour to make a soft dough. Knead until smooth.
  • Place in a greased bowl; cover and let rise until doubled in bulk.
  • Punch down.
  • Put in greased 10″ tube pan and let rise again until doubled in bulk.
  • Brush with beaten egg yolk.
  • Bake at 375° for 45 minutes until the top is dark brown.
Keyword bread, Serbian, slavic
Balkan, Hungary, International Foods, recipe, The Balkan Dancers of Buffalo

POPPY SEED CRESCENTS – MÁKOS KIFLI

Poppy Seed Crescents
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POPPY SEED CRESCENTS – MÁKOS KIFLI

Course: after church coffee hour, Cookie, Dessert
Cuisine: Hungarian
Keyword: cookie, cooky, Kifli

Ingredients

Filling:

  • 3 c. ground poppy seeds
  • ¼ c. sugar
  • ¾ c. milk
  • ½ c. butter

Dough:

  • 3 c. flour
  • 1 c. unsalted butter
  • 3 egg yolks beaten
  • 1½ Tbsp. cream
  • 2 tsp. lemon peel grated

For Top

  • Confectioner sugar
  • 1 egg slightly beaten
  • Vanilla Confectioner sugar (sugar that has been sitting in a jar with sliced vanilla bean pieces throughout)

Instructions

Filling:

  • Mix all filling ingredients in a 2 qt. saucepan and cook over low heat, stirring constantly, for 5 minutes until slightly thickened.
  • Cool.
  • If it becomes too thick to spread, add milk.

To make dough:

  • Chill butter and cut into pieces, then work into flour.
  • Beat together remaining ingredients and add to flour mixture gradually, using a fork.
  • Work into a large ball.
  • Turn out onto floured wax paper.
  • Shape into roll.
  • Slice into 48 pieces (chill if it is too sticky or soft to slice)

To make:

  • Sprinkle an area with confectioner sugar.
  • Roll one ball at a time into 1/16″ thick circle.
  • Spread 2 tsp. filling onto dough.
  • Gently lift nearest edge and roll.
  • Curve ends of roll slightly.
  • Put on cookie sheet with overlapping edge underneath.
  • Brush crescents with slightly beaten egg.
  • Bake at 375° for 15-20 minutes or until lightly browned.
  • Just before serving sprinkle with vanilla confectioner sugar
Balkan, Croatian, International Foods, recipe, Viltis

Garlic Potatoes (Cesnjak Krumpir)

 

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Garlic Potatoes (Cesnjak Krumpir)

Course: Dinner, Side Dish
Cuisine: Croatia
Keyword: Cesnjak Krumpir, garlic potato, Garlic Potatoes (Cesnjak Krumpir), potato

Ingredients

  • 6-7 medium potatoes
  • ⅛ lb butter
  • 3 cloves garlic
  • flour

Instructions

  • Peel and boil potatoes until they are almost mushy.
  • When draining leave just a little water at bottom of the pan.
  • Saute the garlic with water and flour, add this to the potatoes and mix it to blend.

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CHOCOLATE CHIP CAKE Tort Z Czekoladowy

CHOCOLATE CHIP CAKE Tort Z Czekoladowy
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CHOCOLATE CHIP CAKE Tort Z Czekoladowy

Course: Dessert
Cuisine: polish
Keyword: cake, chocolate, chocolate cake

Ingredients

  • 1 cup dates
  • 1 cup sugar
  • ¾ cup Crisco
  • 2 eggs
  • 2 cups cake flour
  • 1 tbsp. cocoa
  • 1 tsp. baking soda
  • ½ tsp. salt

Instructions

Prep dates

  • Cut up the dates and put them in a bowl.
  • Add 1 ¼ of boiling water.
  • Set aside.

Beat

  • 1 cup sugar
  • ¾ cup of Crisco
  • 2 eggs

Sift

  • 2 cups of flour
  • 1 tbsp. cocoa
  • 1 tsp. baking soda
  • ½ tsp. salt

Mix together

  • Add your mix and dates to the mixture, you beat (a little at a time) until all is mixed together.
  • Before putting into the oven sprinkle package of chocolate chips and a ½ cup of sugar over the top
  • Preheat oven to 350° and bake for 30-35 minutes

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food, International Foods, International Institute (Lawrence MA) Cookbook, Lithuanian, recipe

Jellied Pig’s Feet

 

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Jellied Pigs Feet

Cook Time4 hours
Cuisine: Lithuanian
Keyword: Pig, Pigs Feet
Author: Mrs. C.J. Mikolaitis

Ingredients

  • 2 pigs feet chopped in half
  • ½ onion
  • 2 bay leaves
  • ¾ tsp peppercorns
  • 8 whole allspice
  • salt
  • pepper
  • water to cover

Instructions

  • Boil till meat begins to fall from bones (about 4 hours)
  • Take feet out of broth and remove bones.
  • Put meat into loaf pan 5x8" and strain broth over it.
  • This will jelly.
  • Chill thoroughly in refrigerator.
  • Turn out on a platter.
  • Garnish with lemon and service sliced with hot boiled potatoes.

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