Romania

Recipes by the places recorded in their sources.

Romania

3 recipes

Photograph of Zacusca.
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Zacusca

Zacusca is a Romanian and Moldovan spread of roasted eggplant and sweet peppers cooked down with onion, tomato and oil, made in quantity in autumn and kept in jars for winter.

Romania
· Condiments
Romanian cozonac with a walnut and sultana swirl, shown whole and sliced.

Cozonac (Irina Georgescu’s walnut and sultana loaves)

This Romanian cozonac recipe makes two enriched loaves filled with walnuts, sultanas and a whipped egg-white mixture. The dough rises once before filling and again in tins, then bakes in two oven stages.

Romania
· Grains and starches
A small glass cruet and tasting bowl of pale-yellow birch sap vinegar on a wooden table with birch bark nearby.

Birch sap vinegar

Vinegar from spring birch sap fermented to alcohol and then acetic acid, usually with added sugar or honey because the sap is so dilute; made in Sweden and described in older eastern European accounts.

Sweden · Modern adaptation
· Condiments