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My Mother’s Parker House Rolls

(Insert a long rambling story about searching for years and years for this cookbook- reality is I picked it up in Virginia at McKay Books.) I’m not sure about the age of said cookbook but it is older and as such isn’t as user friendly as contemporary cookbooks. It assumes that you have a basic […]

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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 […]