Hungarian Plum Dumplings

January 30, 2008

After posting yesterday, I decided that potato quiche was a bit dull so decided to make Hungarian Plum Dumplings instead. These are basically boiled potato and flour dumplings with a plum inside. Please go over and have and have a look at the recipe if it is something you might like to try.

I used the following local ingredients:

Potatoes from a local farm

Plain flour - we’re not sure where the wheat grain comes from so we may not be able to use this supplier in Lent

Butter

Eggs which we bought from our local shop. In future we will get them from the milkman as they’re more local

Plums from the freezer - originally from the tree in my parents’ garden

Breadcrumbs from bad bread baked by me using brown flour and locally produced honey.

In the end, we were not too sure whether it is meant to be a sweet or savoury meal, so we mixed in a few herbs that we bought at a local Country Market and ate it with local lettuce (probably greenhouse grown so off the Lent list) and sprouting beans.

It just goes to show how complicated even a simple meal can be!

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4 Responses to “Hungarian Plum Dumplings”

Karin
Posted: Jan 30th, 2008 at 9:33 pm

They look lovely, but I’ve never been a fan of dumplings whether made with wheat or potato flour.

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Noj
Posted: Jan 31st, 2008 at 8:16 am

OMG you added herbs to szilvásgombóc and ate it with sprouting beans!?!?! But it’s a dessert!! Of course there’s nothing wrong with experimenting but next time try it with cinnamon and powdered sugar. :)

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joe
Posted: Jan 31st, 2008 at 1:20 pm
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Apologies Noj we didn’t know.

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Nelli
Posted: Feb 2nd, 2008 at 7:52 am

Yikes!
Szilvasgomboc and lettuce and herbs?
Reminds me of my husbands cooking :)
You know, I know why you might mixed this up, it is because european cooking does not use as much sugar as American by miles. Even if it is a dessert. Next time leave out the herbs, and top it with powdered sugar or jam.
There is also another Hungarian dish, wich is noodles with carammellized cabbage (kaposztas teszta). This you can eat sweet or salty with pepper.
Reminds me: in Hungary we never ever (at least not me) ate french toast (bread covered with egg and fried) sweet.
But don’t worry, you might just invented a new dish!

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