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Illustrated dark metal peka bell fitted over a shallow pan, with ash-covered embers on its dome during hearth cooking.
Equipment

Peka

Peka names a family of hearth-baking lids: a domed clay or metal bell carries embers above food. In the later Dinaric assembly, a shallow pan sits beneath the lid, sometimes with a ring to hold coals in place.

Covered pot ovens
Dalmatia
Watercolor illustration of a filled whole-lambskin mišina sack, with its filling neck and limb openings tied closed.
Equipment

Mišina lambskin cheese sack

A whole lambskin, prepared as a flexible sack, holds densely packed cheese for ripening as sir iz mišine. The Croatian record locates the tradition in Dalmatia, Velebit and Lika, while its beginnings remain uncertain.

Skins and bladders
Dalmatian hinterland
Editorial illustration of a domed baking bell covered with embers over a shallow pan on a hearth.
Equipment

Baking bell (coal-covered pot)

A portable dome and pan used over a hearth, with embers on the lid and heat from below. Regional peka and saç forms share this principle while differing in materials, pan shape and how the food is cooked.

Jars, pots and crocks
Dalmatia