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Hollowed kaiser roll filled with creamed spinach, topped with a fried egg and grated cheese on a white plate
breads pastries

Creamed Spinach in Kaiser Rolls

Toasted kaiser rolls hollowed and filled with butter-creamed spinach, topped with a fried egg and grated cheese.

Total time: 40 min
Servings: 4
A small white sauceboat of pale caper sauce with visible caper pieces, lemon wedge alongside on a linen cloth
soups stews

Caper Sauce

A simple roux-based sauce with capers and lemon — made in under 15 minutes, equally at home over poached lamb, boiled vegetables, or pan-fried fish.

Total time: 15 min
Servings: 4–6
Soft white meringue dumplings floating in pale yellow vanilla custard in a glass bowl
desserts cakes

Floating Islands the Central European Way

Cloud-light poached meringue dumplings served cold in a silky vanilla custard — the beloved Central European šnenokle, made the old-fashioned way.

Total time: 45 min
Servings: 6
Sliced poached lamb on a white serving plate, pale caper sauce poured over, cubed carrot and kohlrabi alongside
meat poultry

Lamb with Caper Sauce

A whole poached leg or breast of lamb simmered with root vegetables and bay, served with cubed greens and a roux-based caper sauce made from the cooking stock.

Total time: 120 min
Servings: 4–6
A golden apricot cream unmoulded onto a glass plate, decorated with whipped cream and served chilled
desserts cakes

Apricot Cream

A rich chilled cream of apricot marmalade, egg yolks, sugar, and gelatin, set in a mould and served unmoulded with whipped cream.

Total time: 55 min
Servings: 6
A sponge cake with its top sliced off, filled with pale custard cream studded with candied fruit and raisins, topped with whipped cream
desserts cakes

Cake Filled with Fruit Cream

Hollowed sponge filled with rum-soaked candied peel, raisins, jelly candy, and gelatin custard folded with whipped cream. Topped with cream and candied fruit.

Total time: 335 min
Servings: 10
Poached chicken pieces in a cream asparagus sauce garnished with asparagus tips on a vintage serving platter
meat poultry

Chicken in Asparagus Sauce

A whole chicken poached in spiced broth, then finished in a silky velouté enriched with egg yolks and cream, garnished with tender asparagus tips.

Total time: 105 min
Servings: 4
Sliced potato strudel dusted with vanilla sugar on a vintage ceramic plate
desserts cakes

Potato Strudel

Soufflé-light potato, egg yolk, and lemon-whipped whites folded into paper-thin hand-stretched strudel dough, an early 20th-century Central European

Total time: 100 min
Servings: 6
A glistening strawberry jelly unmoulded onto a glass bowl, served with whipped sour cream and biscuits
desserts cakes

Strawberry Jelly with Rum

A refreshing no-bake strawberry jelly set with gelatin and lightly flavoured with rum, served unmoulded with whipped sweetened sour cream and biscuits.

Total time: 35 min
Servings: 5
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