Easter Dessert Cheese

Let’s take one more look at a recipe for paska, the dessert cheese featured at Orthodox Easter luncheon. The breaking of the fast of Lent must be one big food orgy considering all the delicious sweets, breads and traditional foods I am finding in this box of recipes! I can’t deny they are intriguing, but … Continue reading

Egg Custard Cheese (Hrutka)

I’m really getting an education in Eastern European Easter foods! This is a recipe for a Slovenian Easter cheese called hrutka. I found it also called certzo and cerdetz, but all agree the words describe the same item. An egg custard that is pressed into a cheese. It can be sweet or savory, infused with … Continue reading