Butter Horns -- Traditional Hungarian Pastry

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My grandmother made the best Hungarian butter horns that I've ever tasted! She was famous for her traditional Hungarian pastry.

Holidays were always THE time of year that my grandmother baked the most of her famous Hungarian Butter Horns.  She could make hundreds of these at a time, with several different fillings -- usually nuts, apricots, and prune.  I love to reminesce about sitting in my grandmother's kitchen and watching her cook and bake her butter horns.

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My grandmother made the best butter horns!!!

Hungarian Butter Horns Recipe 

4 cups flour
1 tsp. salt
1 packet yeast

Mix and add
1/2 cup butter
1/4 cup lard
1/2 cup Crisco

Add
3 egg yolks
1 cup sour cream
1 tsp. vanilla
Form into 3 balls and chill 5 hours or overnight

Roll out balls with powdered sugar and cut with pizza cutter. Then spread filling on and shape roll into crescent.

Filling:
3 egg whites 1 cup sugar
1 tsp. vanilla 1 cup chopped nuts

Bake at 375 for 15 to 20 minutes until slightly browned. Frost when cool. (Frosting follows)

Frosting:
1/8 lb. butter 2 cups powdered sugar
1 egg or 1/4 cup milk or more

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What do you like in your horns? 

I particularly loved my grandmother's NUT butter horns!

What's your favorite filling?

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Apricot

TheWhistler says:

I would like to say both, but since you didn't give us that option I go with the apricots

ThomasC says:

I'm gonna have to say Apricots, even though I like nuts to! Just like Apricots better!

Nuts

fotolady49 says:

But I love apricots also!!!

lakeerieartists says:

Nuts definately!

 
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Grandma's Cooking the Best!

My grandmother's butter horns were so good that they melted in your mouth. She didn't need icing, but simply sprinkled confectioner's sugar on the horns after they cooled.

Another Hungarian Dessert: Hungarian Donut 

Hungarian Donut (Fánk)

These donuts have no holes in the middle; the authentic appearance is that the donuts have "crater" You might find typos in this video, am too lazy to fix it :P

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Another Hungarian Butter Horns Recipe 

4 cups flour
1 tsp. salt
1-1/4 cups butter
1 cake yeast
4 egg yolks
1/2 cup sour cream

Cut flour, salt and butter with a pastry blender or fork. Crumble yeast in flour mixture. Beat egg yolks and sour cream. Add to first mixture. Divide into 8 Equal parts. Roll each portion as you would for a pie. Cut into 8 wedges.

Filling:
4 egg whites, beaten stiff
1 cup sugar, beaten stiff
1 cup finely ground nuts
1/2 tsp. vanilla

Spread filling and roll from wide end. (Roll dough on powdered sugar.) Bake on cookie sheet at 350 degrees for 18 minutes. Makes 64. --cooks.com.

The Lost Art of Baking With Yeast: Delicious Hungarian Cakes & Pastries 

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Recipe for Hungarian Kifli 

from www.christmas-cookies.com

1 cup butter or margarine, softened
1 cup cream style cottage cheese
2 cups all-purpose flour
2 egg whites
2 cups chopped nuts
1/2 cup water
2 tablespoons ground cinnamon

In large bowl, beat together butter or margarine and cottage cheese til light and fluffy. Add flour until dough forms a ball. Divide dough into 3 equal portions. Wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate until firm.

Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C) and grease cookie sheets.

To Make Filling: Combine egg whites, nuts, water, and ground cinnamon. Mix well and set aside. On a floured surface roll 1 portion of dough into a 10 inch circle. Spread circle with 1/3 of the filling to within approximately 1/2 inch of the edge. Cut circle into 24 pie shaped wedges. Beginning at outer edge roll up each wedge tightly. Place point side down on cookie sheet 1 1/2 inches apart.

Bake 13-15 minutes or until golden (be sure to watch carefully as these cookies burn easily). Remove to rack to cool. Repeat process with each remaining portion of dough and filling.

A special lens on Hungarian Kifli 

Recipe for Hungarian Szerelmes Leve'l or Love Letters 

Courtesy of Eva's Hungarian Kitchen, Magyar Marketing

Dough
2 cups flour
1-1/3 cups butter or margarine
1 egg yolk
1/2 cup water
1 tsp. vinegar
1 tbsp. rum
Salt

Reserve 2 Tbsp butter and 1-1/2 cups of the flour. Combine the remaining flour and butter with masher or knives and refrigerate. Using reserved flour, butter and remaining ingredients, prepare A well kneaded soft dough.

Roll out to 1/4 inch thickness and cut into 4-5 inch squares. Fill with walnuts, sugar and beaten egg white mixture. Fold like an envelope using a drop of egg yolk to stick corners together. Brush with yolks on top taking care that no egg touches the cut edge of the pastry.

Bake at 400 degree F. until golden brown. Sprinkle with vanilla icing sugar or powdered sugar.

Another Hungarian Dessert: Hungarian Plum Dumpling 

Hungarian Plum Dumpling (Szilvásgombóc)

Sweet fruit dumpling sprinkled with icing sugar. * NOTE: I seem to forget to mention, after you sliced the plum, roll them in the mixture of sugar+cinnamon before placing them in the skin. You might find typos in this video, am too lazy to fix it :P

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Love these? What is your favorite filling?

AndyPo wrote...

Sounds delicious

ReplyPosted July 09, 2009

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Rebecca wrote

Attempting to find someone willing to share a recipe for csoroge... I've found one that comes close to what I'm used to, however, I was never able to acquire the recipe for the ones I REALLY liked. The woman just plain refused to share it! :( Help please!

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