Hungarian Cookbook Old World Recipes For New World Cooks

These enticing Old World Hungarian recipes were brought to America by the author's grandparents, but they have been updated to accommodate today's dietary concerns and faster-paced lifestyles. The author also explores the seasonal and ceremonial observances still practiced by Hungarian Americans: bacon cookouts, fall grape festivals, weddings, Christmas, New Year's, and Easter.

These Old World recipes were brought to America by the author's grandparents, but they have been updated to accommodate today's faster-paced lifestyles. In many cases, the author presents a New World version of the recipe, in which low-fat and more readily available ingredients are substituted without compromising flavour. The new chapter on breads focuses on yeast breads, with a short section on quick breads. This is more than just a collection of 142 enticing Hungarian recipes. The author offers culinary tips, explains characteristics of the Hungarian language, and includes a glossary of terms used throughout the book.

"Our appetite for this interesting cuisine, a melding of Germanic, Slavic, Tartar, and Turkish influences, has been whetted by [this] excellent new work."--New York Times

This is an old, tried, & true HUNGARIAN cookbook 1st published in 1934. All ingredients listed in order they should be used, as well as one step after the other. Recipes are for six people...for soups, hot & cold apetizers, meats, salads, & deserts.

Filled with 133 easy recipes for everyday and holiday occasions, each entry in this resource is drawn from the most popular Hungarian cookery book--including the best of traditional Hungarian cuisine.

June Meyer's Authentic Hungarian Heirloom Recipes, Third Edition is a cookbook filled with 95 authentic, pre World War One family recipes from the Austro-Hungarian Empire and Alsace-Lorraine. The recipes were never written down, but have been handed down for many generations in her family. It also contains chapters on the origin of June Meyers Family Recipes and an account of life in Altkeer, Batchka region, Hungary around 1900. A chapter on Hungarian Christmas Cookies, a History of German Settlement in Southern Hungary, and a History of The Danube Swabians in the Twentieth Century by Historian Susan Clarkson, and the Danube Swabian Coat of Arms. The cookbook is organized with one recipe per page and each recipe is preceded by a short colorful remembrance or historical fact. It has a detailed description of ingredients used in the recipes and an Alphabetical and Category Recipe Index with English and Hungarian names.The Recipe Categories include Relish & Pickles, Salads & Slaws, Soups and Dumplings, Main Course, Side Dishes, Sauces, Pastries, Hungarian Christmas Cookies, Fillings For Kipfels And Cookies, and Other Hungarian Goodies. All the recipes are kitchen-tested. You will surely enjoy the food, authentic recipes and stories. (Written in English)