Forgotten Delicacies

Forgotten Delicacies

PADIŠPANJ (TRILJ CAKE)

  • 8 eggs
  • 8 big spoons of sugar
  • 8 big spoons of flour
  • optional lemon peel

Beat eggs and sugar for 30 minutes. Add flour and lemon peel. Pour the mixture into a mould and bake for 40 minutes at 150˚C.

Custard preparation: Mix egg yolks and sugar, add vanilla sugar, flour, boiling milk. Cook it all together until it steams. When it's condensed, add chocolate bits.

PORK RIND CAKE

  • 1 kg flour
  • 2 baking powders
  • 40 dkg ground pork rinds
  • 40 dkg sugar
  • 4 eggs
  • 2 dl milk
  • lemon or orange peel
  • rum
  • plum or cherry marmalade

Mix 1 kg flour with 2 baking powders, add 40 dkg ground pork rinds, 40 dkg sugar, 4 eggs, 2 dl cold milk, lemon/orange peel, rum.

Knead the dough carefully, divide it into 4 parts, roll it until it is 1 cm thick, spread the plum or cherry marmalade, roll and bake at 160˚C for about an hour.

WEDDING DAY HEN RISOTTO

For 20 persons

  • 3 hens
  • 1 kg rice
  • 1 kg onions
  • 1 garlic clove
  • 1 parsley sprig
  • 2 spoons of homemade sweet pepper
  • salt
  • pepper
  • homemade lard for stewing
  • chicken stock for stewing

Source: Women's society ''Triljanke''

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