June Meyer's Authentic Hungarian Heirloom Recipes [Spiral-bound]

June V. Meyer (Author), Aaron D. Meyer (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 5, 1998

June Meyer's Authentic Hungarian Heirloom Recipes cookbook has 95 wonderful kitchen-tested family recipes. It is nicely organized with one recipe per page and each recipe is preceded by a short colorful remembrance or historical fact. The cookbook has 195 pages, measures 9X7 and is spiral bound so it will lay flat in the kitchen. It has an Ingredients page, an Alphabetical and Category Recipe Index with English and Hungarian names, A chapter on Hungarian Christmas Cookies, The Danube Swabian Coat of Arms, A History of German Settlement in Southern Hungary and a History of The Danube Swabians in the Twentieth Century by Historian Susan Clarkson. It also contains the Origin of June Meyers Family Recipes and an account of life in Altkeer, Batchka region, Hungary around the turn of the century. The Recipe Categories include Relish & Pickles, Salads & Slaws, Soups and Dumplings, Main Course, Side Dishes, Sauces, Pastries, Hungarian Christmas Cookies, Fillings For Kipfels And Cookies, and Other Hungarian Goodies. I am sure you will enjoy the food, authentic recipes and stories. (Writen in English)

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

June Meyer, a Chicago native and graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, taught Art at Deerfields Wilmot Elementary School for 25 years until her retirement in 1994. June grew up with these recipes since both of her parents were born in Hungary and they brought their ethnic dishes with them when they emigrated to America. Her family recipes had never been written down, cooking was done with a handful of this, a pinch of that. They were passed from generation to generation by daughters cooking at the elbows of grandmother and mother. As an avid reader of the rec.food.cooking newsgroup on the Internet, June found that there was a need to preserve these wonderful old recipes for future generations due to the fact that most families never wrote down the beloved family recipes and were lost when grandma died. June has assembled a sizable collection of her family's Hungarian recipes. In 1996 June and her son Aaron decided to publish her cookbook entitled June Meyer's Authentic Hungarian Heirloom Recipes. The collection grew until it finally included ninety five authentic Hungarian recipes and stories.

From the Author

I was born in Chicago in 1934. My Mother, Father and Grandmother, cooked Hungarian and Transylvania dishes. The recipes I have published as June Meyer's Authentic Hungarian Heirloom Recipes are just that. The recipes are descended from a long line of my ancestors, passed down from one generation to the next. They were never written down. I learned to make them by example. When I married, I continued to cook the cuisine I knew and loved. I love to cook, and I enjoy cooking and eating many different ethnic foods. But there is something spiritual and comforting about cooking and baking foods that your ancestors loved and thrived on. A lot of these recipes have their origin in Austria-Hungary. They are peasant dishes which took advantage of the bounty of the land, requiring slow cooking while the farmers worked in the fields. The cuisine is exceptionally flavorful and unforgettable. My ancestors were German settlers who traveled to Hungary from Swabia in the 1700's. I do not carry Hungarian blood, but I like to think I do, because of the strong bond formed by a lifetime of cooking and eating Hungarian foods. The first lullaby I heard as a baby was a Hungarian one. The dance I loved was a Hungarian one. I used to think that my ancestral heritage was Hungarian because we cooked, baked and ate only Hungarian foods.

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Product Details

• Spiral-bound: 195 pages
• Publisher: Meyer & Assoc.; 2 Ed edition (March 5, 1998)
• ISBN-10: 0966506200
• ISBN-13: 978-0966506204
• Product Dimensions: 8.7 x 6.8 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,763,226 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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23 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Authentic, delicious, concise and easy to follow., July 28, 1998

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This review is from: June Meyer's Authentic Hungarian Heirloom Recipes (Spiral-bound)

These recipes flood my mind with memories of my childhood. My wife can't cook like my mother, but the book is so easy to follow that her food even tastes like my mothers. Great book.

18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars It really is authentic, July 19, 2003

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shaw6 (Sydney, NSW Australia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: June Meyer's Authentic Hungarian Heirloom Recipes (Spiral-bound)

My dad was Hungarian, and the recipes I have from my grandmother are the same as those in this book. I was thrilled to find a few recipes in the book that I didn't already have.

I cooked them and was amazed to find they tasted exactly right, just like grandma used to make - delicious!

The best thing about it is the tips that June Meyer includes about how to make the recipe come out right. It's just like having a real Hungarian home-cooking expert at your elbow, and don't assume you know how to do everything.

Highly recommended.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Memories of Grandma French, February 22, 2006

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This review is from: June Meyer's Authentic Hungarian Heirloom Recipes (Spiral-bound)

Growing up I spent alot of time with my Hungarian Grandparents. Grandma was a great cook; paprikas, pancakes, pastries, you name it - country Hungarian food at its finest. June Meyer's book has some great recipes that remind me of a different time; Meyer doesn't cut out the lard, salt or butter either - these are authentic recipes in all of there high fat and sodium glory. Old school real Hungarian.