Comments on: Recipe list of Czech and Slovak Christmas cookies /Souhrn receptu na ceske a slovenske vanocni cukrovi

By: juro

juro — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 12:52:32 +0000

Thanks for the recipes. -)

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By: lenka

lenka — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 01:22:07 +0000

Sorry, I have not heard of these either. I even asked my mom. No luck.

By: Jamie

Jamie — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 07:44:05 +0000

Vlastimil, both of my mother’s parents were Czech, but it doesn’t explain anything. They stopped speaking Czech when my mother started school, so my mother couldn’t speak it, and I never learned anything but food names, many of which are not used in the Czech Republic now (for example, my family says houska instead of vánočka).

By the way, is there a specific Czech name for that prune-and-white koláč that I always call chodská pizza?

By: Tanja

Tanja — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 05:02:30 +0000

Oh, so Jamie, your grandma was Czech???? Now it all makes sense )
I have never heard of “Jezky” either. I even tried to find in on a Czech cooking webiste and with no luck. Sorry..

By: Jamie

Jamie — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 04:08:50 +0000

The only Czech cookie that I’ve never seen since my grandmother died is “ježky”. They’re an extruded cookie, hard and rough on the roof of your mouth. They are made on the same day the pracny are made, because both cookies contain the same ingredients, except that one cookie requires the egg yolk and the other takes the egg white. Any contact with the Czech side of my family, particularly around Christmas, involved these cookies, but no Czech I’ve ever asked about them has ever seen or heard of them.

By: Tanja

Tanja — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 05:28:26 +0000

Hi Pat, was she making those walnut tarts? Those have exactly that exact description you gave us. If that’s the case, the recipe is right here

By: pat

pat — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 02:26:53 +0000

Thanks for the recipes.
I had a Czech friend who used to give me cookies for Christmas. The crescents were good, but I really liked the chocolate ones. They had a texture like very firm shortbread and were chocolate and not sweet. She gave me the recipe, but I lost it when I moved and can not remember what they were called. I wish I had had that recipe again.

By: honza

honza — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 18:15:04 +0000

HI dont try to make any czech cookies unless you have a real czech rum (tuzemak)using northamerican rum is not
as tasty!

By: Albert

Albert — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 22:06:12 +0000

Try this one http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~mjw/recipes/bread/swallowtail-houska.html