Povitica is a rolled sweet bread — a yeasted dough stretched until it is nearly transparent, covered in a thick paste of ground walnuts, sugar, honey, butter, and sometimes rum or cinnamon, then rolled tightly into a log, coiled into a loaf pan, and baked until golden. The cross-section when sliced reveals a dense spiral […]

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Fritule are small, round fried dough balls — a yeasted batter of flour, eggs, milk, sugar, lemon or orange zest, a splash of rum or rakija, and sometimes raisins, dropped by the spoonful into hot oil and fried until golden on the outside and soft inside. They are dusted with powdered sugar immediately and eaten […]

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