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.
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.
This early twentieth-century volume by Sacellary and Fodor aimed to acquaint American cooks of the day with Hungarian dishes that could be prepared at home.
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)
"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.
One of the all-time great cookbooks receives a lavish update and remains an essential resource and inspiration for cooks of all levels. One of the greatest cookbooks of all time, The Constance Spry Cookery Book remains an essential kitchen bible: astonishingly informative, supremely practical, and constantly at-hand for countless home cooks and future top chefs for over fifty years. With over a thousand pages filled with recipes, cooking history, and miraculous tips, this indispensable resource has now been updated and elegantly redesigned with specially commissioned how-to line drawings. Cooks of every level will find invaluable information on kitchen processes, soups and sauces, vegetables, meat, poultry, game, cold dishes, and pastry making. This timeless treasure is “a monument to ‘civilised living’ . . . If you can’t find a recipe for something anywhere else, it will be in Constance Spry” (The Guardian). “Cookery is vast, detailed, and lovely. The purpose of the book was to take the knowledge of culinary professionals and write it in a form that British housewives could understand and use. It was, and it remains, the British cookery [and cooking] bible.” —Cooking by the Book
