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Banat Struedel

dessert serbian food 3 Comments

I can’t tell you much about this struedel. I know it’s made in Banat region of Serbia, but except that, not much more What I can tell you, even though this wasn’t what I expected and the dough looks very different than in the photo of the original recipe, is that it is great for this time of year and…

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White Pie with Hartshorn Salt

croatian food dessert 14 Comments

I’ve made this pie before. The recipes are almost identical except for the use of an unusual ingredient in this one – hartshorn salt. It is actually ammonium carbonate, a baker’s ammonia and it’s used as a leavening agent since 17th century. What amazes me is how it came to their minds to produce a baking ingredient out of the…

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Castagnole

dessert italian food Sale & Pepe 8 Comments

Donuts? Wrong Cookies. Deep fried and rolled into sugar. These little ones are called castagnole and they’re Italian carnival cookies (not to be mistaken for frittelles). The name probably comes from Italian word castagna, meaning chestnut. Most of the time they are flavored with Mistrà, an anise liquor. People tend to expect donuts when they see them, if they don’t…

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