44th National Táncház Festival & Fair • 4–6 April 2025
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The Traditional Hungarian Kitchen and Quarentine Cuisine. During this time of pandemic with its grocery shopping limitations, some begin to think about old cooking practices. The Hungarian pantry of 100 years ago stored: flour, grains of all kinds, beans, onion, garlic, dried peppers, saurkraut, home canned foods, jams, dried fruit, seeds, honey, eggs, fat, bacon, sausage, smoked meat; in the celler were potatoes, root vegetables and cabbage along with seasonal garden vegetables, etc. Peasant household and kitchen practices in Hungary began to change drastically from the end of the 1960s with the appearance of the gas stove/oven, refrigerator, and freezer. Eating what was in season at the moment went into decline. Traditional recipes and cooking tips suggested for quarentine cooking: oven Palóc bean soup, taragon soup, bean soup, sour soup, haluska, sausage dumplings, fried bean patties, potato casserole, kolach, sweet raised-dough squares. By ethnographer Juhász Katalin.