In the Hungarian calendar we call the 12th, 13th and 14th of May as the name or feast-days of St. Pancras, St. Servatius and St. Boniface of Tarsus respectively. These three saints are referred to as the Ice Saints in many European countries and this name comes from the traditional belief that frost is likely…
The third week of May has been pretty busy for PaprikaMolnar: after several starts and stops and restarts we eventually transplanted our paprika seedlings to their final place in our farm. It’s a small plot of land this year, but planting has never been so hard with rain coming down every day, between which we…
It is paprika planting time and we very much hope the Ice Saints next week will come unnoticed! The days of the Ice Saints Pancras, Servatius and Boniface on the 12th, 13th and 14th of May are yet to come and although these past few days have been rather cold and threatened with night frost,…
This time last year the Paprika Museum at PaprikaMolnar’s factory turned ten and on our tenth-year anniversary. I remembered some outstanding moments and statistics from the past ten years. In this post I’d like to look at the past a little and share some news from the previous one year. How did the Paprika Museum…
Paprika growers know it well that it is high time to buy and sow the paprika seeds now. The grower needs to decide on which variety to use and whether to buy certified or patented seeds. Farmers can select their own seeds: leave the pods become fully ripe, maybe throughout the winter, cut up the…
I’d like to wish a happy and blessed new year with this beautiful old Scottish poem, retold by Robert Burns in the 18th century and sung all over the world, even by non-English speakers: Should auld acquaintance be forgot, and never brought to mind? Should auld acquaintance be forgot, and auld lang syne? …
The photos below of snow and paprika I took a few years ago. Even though the snow is gone by now, the photos convey a sense of festivity we are having over the winter holidays in PaprikaMolnár’s Paprika Museum, Röszke, Hungary. Wishing you good health, success and happiness for the coming year!
PaprikaMolnár has just finished drying the freshly picked paprika fruits. The first grinds are ready and we have stocked up for winter. So it’s high time I did an assessment of this autumn’s harvest now. Every paprika year is different and there’s always something that surprises the farmer and the processor. This year the rainy…
Autumn is the busiest time of the agricultural year and it’s true for the red spice paprika varieties, too. Picking, post-harvest ageing and processing was always an arduous job and it is no different today. Harvest traditionally started on 8 September, the Day of the Blessed Virgin Mary and ended before frost set in or until…
We proudly announce PaprikaMolnár’s Paprika Museum is on TV, or rather, on Youtube! CNN’s Great Big Story production group wanted to know why Hungarians are so obsessed with paprika. So, they came to Budapest, went to Paprika Market, ate nothing but paprikash and spent a day with us in PaprikaMolnár’s museum and factory and listened to…
There is a Hungarian folk song that says Winter is cold, summer is warm, it’s raining all the time, it’s never a good time. The melody or tune of the song is fun and the lyrics are so Hungarian: Hungarians like to complain, but at the same time they are self-ironic and like to have…
We’ve turned ten. On 17 April 2008 we opened the Paprika Museum at PaprikaMolnar’s factory. Since then we’ve had over ten thousand visitors from Hungary and abroad. We built the museum to commemorate and show all the effort that went into the creation and making of a special local product that proved to be so…