Over the Christmas break, as honoured honourary Hungarians, we were awash with festive Hungarian tit bits from our lovely Neighbour across the hall, Kata and her Auntie.
Everything was very delicious and quite different from any of our tradition festive comestibles, except for the iced gingerbread biscuits perhaps.
It was hard to say what we liked best, but it has to be said that we were very partial to Kata’s Auntie’s crescent shaped walnut cookies ……
……. home baked and sent over from real life Hungary ….……
…….. let’s just they didn’t last long, and if we had been a review they would have received a resounding and unequivocal 100 forints out of 100 on our world famous Richter Scale of Noms.
Needless to say that when Kata invited Darrell round for her version of a Hungarian Bake Off, he was round No. 53 like a shot ………
…….. to see just how she makes her signature poppy seed cake or Bejgli, which we all first sampled last Easter.
Kata also showed Darrell the humungous loaf of bread that she had baked earlier, he said it smelt absolutely wonderful and put our two medium sliced Warburtons to shame!
Kata said that she and Laci would just tear lumps from it to eat throughout the holiday and then told Darrell tales of how at Christmas lots of people would make bread often to sell to others. Darrell came back all gooey eyed and dreamy, saying how romantic a Hungarian Christmas sounded.
We are slowly learning the tiniest bit of Hungarian like “hello”, “goodbye” and “thank you”, but Kata drew the line this year,at teaching us “Merry Christmas” as she said it was quite difficult and she wouldn’t know where to start with us ……… however, we plan to surprise her this year by learning a few key festive Hungarian phrases online, what are we like?
2 comments:
Well done, Kata, and Kata's auntie!
How do you say "The boy dun gud," in Hungarian?
"The boy did well" translates as "A fiú jól tette."
Looks delish, would Kata like to live next door to us??? JantheFan x
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