We started the Advent period with a meatless dish and followed with a rich traditional Christmas dish. It is now time to close down the holiday season and wish you a happy new year with a special dish we cook for new year’s day: chili lentils. New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day. Why lentils?…
After our Advent recipe for fasting before the feast HERE it is high time to remember how we celebrate Christmas with an original Szeged fish soup on the festive table! Christmas customs and Christmas menu What do we celebrate at Christmas? Obviously: the birth of Jesus. The date of Jesus’ birth is known as December 25th.…
Now that the last week of Advent just started, we recommend something light before Christmas starts. This is an expectation anyway in traditional Christian culture as fasting is a way to prepare the body and mind for the celebration. Advent in a nutshell In Christian culture the four Sundays before Christmas is called Advent. The…
A colleague of ours, Eva, shared this lovely family story with us. The story is made of paprika bags, commercial opportunities and some colourful people from the Szeged region. But most of all it portrays the ingenius creativity of women. Smuggling paprika bags. Background of the story During the early years of communism (1950’s) free…
The Advent period – in fact all of December – is a collection of celebrative days. There is Borbala Day, arriving with a branch of a blooming fruit tree, then there is Luca the witch, and of course the holy night of Christmas Eve, followed by two days of Christmas. Then finally the Small Saints…
While the old paprikafarmers around Szeged were busy picking their harvest, during the beginning of September, obviously other events of the economic life took place parallelly. Already at that time, much attention was paid to the preparation of pig slaughtering. For most people the making of hams, sausages and bacon were crucial winter activities and…
Hopefully loyal readers of our blog still remember last week’s post. We wrote about the paprika uprising happening 100 years ago in December 1919 and mentioned that the case was closed only 5 years after. Recalling the 1919 paprika uprising The March 13th 1924 publication of the Délmagyarország newspaper already gives an exciting prediction of…
Just after World War I when the famous miller family Szánthó had received an breakthrough patent to turn their milling process from grain to paprika, it received huge publicity, and not only for its innovative approach. The Délmagyarország newspaper in those days of December 1919, followed the happenings of a paprika-uprising that had started, now…
The newspaper archives of „Délmagyarország”, from which we have already quoted from in various posts, is an unlimited source of everyday life in Szeged all the way back to over 100 years ago, The articles are painting a truly colorful and complex picture of, for example, the paprika decree or of the eternal struggle between…
In our last week’s post, we covered a November 1, 1940 publication of Millers News. Today we continue our „Item of the Week” series by shining our light on a Szécsi-paprika box. The Szécsi-paprika box and collection of tin paprika boxes at the Paprika Museum Similar to this item of Miller News, the Szécsi-paprika box…
Recently, various museums initiated a series called „The item of the Month” and it becomes increasingly popular on social media. This initiative wants to highlight some of the more interesting pieces of the collection or those that are not part of the exhibition. In our Paprika Museum we too collected many artefacts – and there…
Another year has passed, most paprikas have been harvested and collected and the first round of milling is done. Freshly milled paprika is ready! From planting to processing This year’s paprikas have seen it all: It all started with a chilly and rainy May. Because in the planting time there were many heavy rainfalls several…