Hungarian Recipes & Cookbooks

How to Cook dishes from Hungary

• Guly´sleves - A Hungarian meat soup, known overseas as "goulash". It is traditionally made in a cauldron from beef and onions, and flavored with paprika. Potatoes, pasta squares, tomatoes, carrots, and fresh peppers may be added to the soup, and it may also contain hot chilies, or be flavored with garlic, herbs, or white wine. There are actually many different variations of the recipe, each with their own names and particular combinations of ingredients.
  
  
• Halészlé - A fish soup made with mixed freshwater fish and onions, and flavored with paprika.
  
  
• Hideg meggyleves - A soup made from sour cherries, and served cold. As well as fresh sour cherries, it usually contains fresh cream and spices such as (allspice, cinnamon and cloves). Sometimes normal cherries may be added, and sour cream is often used instead of fresh cream. Hideg meggyleves can be eaten as an appetizer or as a dessert!
  
  
• Pecsenye - Pork served with cabbage.
  
  
• Pörkölt - Meat stew.
  
  
• Stef´nia szelet - The Hungarian version of meatloaf with hard-boiled eggs in the middle.
  
  
• Töltött paprika - Peppers stuffed with ground meat, rice and spices.
  
  
• Töltött k´poszta - Stuffed cabbage.

• Dobos torta - A layered sponge cake, covered with chocolate, caramel and nuts. It is named after its inventor, the Hungarian confectioner, József C. Dobos.
  
  
• Linzertorte - A tart made from a crumbly pastry containing ground almonds, and filled with jam. The top of the tart usually has a lattice design with strips of pastry, and decorated with almonds. The dish is named for the city of Linz in Austria, where the recipe originated.
  
  
• Rétes - The Hungarian version of strudel.
  
  
• Rigó Jancsi - A cube-shaped cake made from two layers of chocolate sponge cake. In between the two layers is a chocolate cream filling, and the top of the cake is also glazed with chocolate.

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Culinaria Hungary (Culinaria) By Aniko Gergely Ullmann Paperback (318 pages) List Price: $24.95* Lowest New Price: $16.47* Lowest Used Price: $53.98* Temporarily out of stock. Order now and we'll deliver when available. We'll e-mail you with an estimated delivery date as soon as we have more information. Your credit card will not be charged until we ship the item.* *(As of 04:09 Pacific 8 Feb 2010 More Info) Click Here Product Description: Food and culture are inexorably tied together. The Culinaria series reports on every aspect of the cuisine of a country within the context of the people who created it. One of the most successful series in cook book history, these new editions are updated with the guidance of first-class chefs, and come in a durable flexi-cover format to withstand abuse while spending time in the kitchen. The teams behind each Culinaria volume spend months in the region they are working on, allowing them time to fully absorb all of the food and drink a country can offer. Profusely illustrated with spectacular photography and abundantly peppered with authentic recipes, these volumes are a treat for both the mind and the palate. Learn about the history behind the dishes, their cultural significance, and how to prepare them. Beautiful photographs take you on a tour from the local villages to inside the kitchen where you will find the final product. Enormous variety of magnificent photographs and tempting recipes together with knowledgeable text that is easy for readers and cooks of all skill levels to understand.

Hungarian Cookbook: Old World Recipes for New World Cooks, Expanded Edition By Yolanda Nagy Fintor Hippocrene Books Paperback (230 pages) List Price: $14.95* Lowest New Price: $9.86* Lowest Used Price: $9.64* Usually ships in 24 hours* *(As of 04:09 Pacific 8 Feb 2010 More Info) Click Here ISBN13: 9780781812405 Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product Description: 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 practised by Hungarian Americans: bacon cookouts, fall grape festivals, weddings, Christmas, New Year's, and Easter.

The Hungarian Cookbook By Susan Derecskey William Morrow Cookbooks Released: 1987-10-14 Paperback (288 pages) List Price: $17.00* Lowest New Price: $9.80* Lowest Used Price: $4.89* Usually ships in 24 hours* *(As of 04:09 Pacific 8 Feb 2010 More Info) Click Here ISBN13: 9780060914370 Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product Description: "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

Magdi's Quick & Easy Hungarian & Other Gourmet Recipes By Magdi Zold Gourmet Hungarian Spiral-bound (50 pages) List Price: $24.99* Lowest New Price: $24.99* Lowest Used Price: $51.30* Usually ships in 24 hours* *(As of 04:09 Pacific 8 Feb 2010 More Info) Click Here Product Description: This unique cookbook is written with the today's busy lifestyle in mind introduces modern versions of recipes handed down for generations. The cookbook brings the true traditional taste of Hungary to your table by choosing among the easy-to-follow recipes. The book is packed full of practical tips,useful hints and step-by-step lavish color photography

A Taste of the Past: The Daily Life and Cooking of a Nineteenth-Century Hungarian-Jewish Homemaker By Andras Koerner UPNE Paperback (444 pages) List Price: $26.00* Lowest New Price: $14.95* Lowest Used Price: $13.95* Usually ships in 24 hours* *(As of 04:09 Pacific 8 Feb 2010 More Info) Click Here Product Description: A Taste of the Past is an entertaining reconstruction of the daily life and household of Therese (Riza) Baruch (1851-1938), the great-grandmother of the author, Andras Koerner. Based on an unusually complete cache of letters, recipes, personal artifacts, and eyewitness testimony, Koerner describes in loving detail the domestic life of a nineteenth-century Hungarian Jewish woman, with special emphasis on the meals she served her family. Based on Riza's letters, part one offers an imaginative sketch of growing up in a religious middle-class family in the 1860s and 70s in an industrial town in western Hungary. Part one also describes Riza's reactions to the dilemmas posed by the early signs of Jewish assimilation. In part two, the heart of the book, Riza has married, moved to a smaller town near the Austrian border, and become the central figure of a large household. Koerner recreates a typical day in the life of Riza and her family, peppering his narrative with recipes of the food she served for breakfast, mid-morning snack, lunch, afternoon coffee-and-cake, and the much more modest evening meal. Riza's family was religious, and Koerner also describes the special foods (pike in sour aspic, cholent, apple-matzo kugel, and much more) she served to celebrate the Sabbath and the six major Jewish holidays. Short introductions to the recipes describe the evolution of the dishes through the centuries, their role in Jewish culture, and how cultural influences and religious traditions shaped Riza's cooking. More than 125 evocative pen-and-ink illustrations bring Riza's story and her food to life. A Taste of the Past offers an enchanting look at Jewish daily life in western Hungary in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, a time when middle-class Jews were increasingly assimilated into mainstream Hungarian life and culture. Such small-town Jewish life had completely disappeared due to the Holocaust. Koerner's book revives this lost world and invites the reader to be a guest in Riza's house to watch her caring for her family, shopping, cooking, and preparing for the holidays. By offering easy-to-follow updated versions of her recipes, the book also allows readers to savor Riza's dishes and desserts in their own kitchens, thus completing this experience of a visit to the past.

That Hungarian's in My Kitchen: 125 Hungarian/American Recipes By Linda F. Radke 5 Star Publications Paperback (179 pages) List Price: $14.95* Lowest New Price: $8.77* Lowest Used Price: $7.51* Usually ships in 24 hours* *(As of 04:09 Pacific 8 Feb 2010 More Info) Click Here ISBN13: 9781877749285 Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product Description: You won't want that Hungarian to leave after you've tried some of the Hungarian/American/Kosher recipes that fill this delightful cookbook. Written for both the novice cook and sophisticated chef, it comes complete with "Aunt Ethel's Helpful Hints".