Slovak easter cheese

Slovak Easter Cheese Recipe (Cirak) is a traditional Eastern European egg cheese ball served on Easter Sunday for breakfast or the main meal.

Hrudka, or Ukrainian egg cheese, is a traditional Eastern European Easter recipe for serving with your ham and paska, or Easter bread.

Hrudka - my generations old family recipe for the traditional Ukrainian Egg Cheese for Easter to serve with ham, kielbasa, and paska or Polish babka.

Growing up in an Eastern European family and attending a Russian Orthodox Church and Sunday School etched all sorts of time-honored family and religious traditions for both the Christmas and Easter holidays in the recesses of my mind. Because I was born with a wooden spoon in my mouth, whenever my grandmother and mother were preparing the food for these two holidays, neither one of them had to coax me into the kitchen to assist. As each year passed, my responsibilities increased. By the time…

Otherwise known in English as "egg cheese". This is from my MIL who has Czech heritage. She makes this every Easter. She slices it and serves it at room temp with ham. *I* like it when it's chilled and I slice it and put it on a sandwich w/ cold leftover ham slices. It's a soft, solid custard. Servings are a guess. Prep time is the chilling time.

The Slovak traditions for Christmas and Easter have imprinted certain taste memories that I can't avoid craving every year. One of the thing...

While Czechs bake sweet Mazanec bread at Easter, our neighbors in Slovakia prepare their soft and fluffy Paska bread. Traditional Paska is made from yeast dough, has a sweetish taste, and is topped with braids laid in the shape of a cross, referring to Christian symbolism. Other names for Slovak paska are pashka, paschka, veľkonočný...Read More

This recipe for Slovak egg cheese is typically made for Easter and goes by a variety of names including hrudka, sirok, and cirak.

Cirak is traditional Slovak Easter cheese that is mild in flavor. It's traditionally served with baked ham and beet horseradish on Easter Sunday.

Cirak is traditional Slovak Easter cheese that is mild in flavor. It's traditionally served with baked ham and beet horseradish on Easter Sunday.