'gray zganci' Recipes and Food

gray zganci

Recipes and Food from Slovenia.

Robert Klemens (68.101.235.58) -

Hi,

My late Mother used to make 2 types of zganci. A yellow crumbly one made from corn meal and served with a tomato sauce or with fried onions and bacon. And we have this quite often. The other she called gray zganci and I think may have been made with buckwheat. It too was crumbly and was served with bacon bits and bacon drippings. Would like a copy of auch a recipe if anyone has one. And thanks.

Robert F klemens

Reply #1 Monica (98.127.155.22) -

We used to make a breakfast Zgance which was similar to crumbled up pancakes and we ate it with coffee and milk. I remember there were a BUNCH of eggs in it and the eggs were separated. It was a sweet kind of thick dough that was stirred and broken un in the frying pan. Does anyone have a recipe?

Reply #2 Sherry Krainick from Bothell, WA (Contact Member) - 08/06/09 21:08

Hi,

I too have been looking for a recipe for Zganci, served with Coffee & Milk. I think I found one its from "Women's Glory-The Kitchen" published by Slovenian Women's Union of America, 1963.

Slovenian Egg Pancakes

2 cups sifted flour

1/2 tsp. salt

1 tablespoon sugar

3 well beaten eggs

4 cups of milk

Mix and sift dry ingredients. Combine eggs and mild; ad four mixture, beating until smooth. Bake quickly in greased hot frying an cooking one large cake at a time, or on a special griddle, containing severalsmall cakemolds. Spread with jam and pile one on another. Re-heat, dust with powdered sugar and cut in wedge-shaped pieces.

submitted by Betty Matjasic, Bedford Hgts., Ohio

I haven't tried this recipe yet. I plan to put it in the frying pan and to keep pulling it apart with a fork like by grandmother did, then serve it in a bowl with coffee, milk and sugar.

Good luck!

Reply #3 everyone (63.251.186.252) - 09/10/09 00:34

Here is my mother/grandmother's recipe for Zganci..we ate it with coffee and milk. My grandmother also made something similiar with cornmeal and we would eat that with saurekraut.

Zganci

3 Eggs

1/4 cup sugar

salt

2 cups water

Flour enough to make thin batter

2 large tbsp. lard (or Crisco) heated to smoking.

The batter was poured into the pan and chopped up as it cooked so it formed small "dumplings".

Recipe of Frances Kochevar Yaklich and Leola Mills Yaklich

Submitted by Trudy Yaklich

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