On flat surface place flour, add margarine cut into small pieces.
Chop nuts in food processor, add them to the flour with sugar, cinnamon and orange rind.
Kneed into smooth ball, cover and refrigerate for 1/2 hr.
Roll out flat piece between two plastic sheets 3 mm thick.
Cut out small circles (1 1/4 inches wide), and bake at 350° F for 7 minutes.
Take off the sheet with metal spatula and set aside.
Make filling.
In a medium mixing bowl mix egg yolks with sugar, add vanilla, rum flavoring, and jam. Mix well with a spoon, and then add the nuts. With butter knife spread the filling on the bottom of one circle and cover with another.
The best way to melt the chocolate is, when you place chocolate in a metal or porcelain bowl, and place it on top of a pot with boiling water. Stir
In a small cup melt 3 Tbs of shortening (in a microwave), and stir it into the melted chocolate.
Dip the tops of the connected pieces in the chocolate.
Take small piece of nut and place on top of the cookie while the chocolate is still warm.
Let the chocolate cool before storing in an airtight container in a cool place.
On a clean smooth surface, place flour( make a mount), create small hole in the middle.
Cut cold margarine into tablespoons and add on the flour.
Add sugar, vanilla, nuts, and egg yolks. Mix by hand and refrigerate for ½ hr.
Chilled dough cut in half, and from one-piece roll thick snake about ½ inch in diameter.
With butter knife cut equal pieces (1/4 inch thick.) Place one piece of the dough in the middle of your palm of your left hand, than with index and middle finger of your right hand roll back and forth about 5x.
Place on a baking sheet and curve the edges in like a small crescent. Place them in rows with half an inch of space.
Bake at 350°F for 7 minutes. Let cool for 5 minutes.
In a medium bowl mix 3 cups of powder sugar, and 1 cup of granulated sugar.
With a metal spatula gently take four cookies at a time and place them in the sugar mixture and coat them in it.
In a pressure cooker place pork, chopped onion, salt and water. Close the lid of the pressure cooker and bring to boil on high temperature. Once the pressure cooker starts making hissing sound, turn down the temperature to medium low. Cook for 35 to 40 minutes.
While the meat is cooking, peel and cube 8 cups of carrots.
To open the pressure cooker, place it in the kitchen sink, and start pouring cold water on top of the lid. When it's safe to open the lid, remove the meat from the water and place it on a cutting board. Cut the meat into smaller cubes. Cover the meat with plastic wrap.
To the broth add the 8 cups of cubed carrots, half a teaspoon salt and 1 cube of beef flavored bouillon. Cover with a lid, and again bring back to boil.
Turn down the heat and cook for 15 minutes. Open the pressure cooker the same way you did previously. Placed the pot back on the stove( without the lid), add the cut meat to the carrots and bring to boil.
In a small shallow frying pan melt 6 tablespoons of margarine or butter and add 4 tablespoons of flour. Mix the flour into the melted butter and constantly stir. The rouge will change color. Take the frying pan off the burner once it turns darker pink.
Pour the rouge into the boiling stew and immediately stir. Cook for five more minutes.
To finish the taste you may want to add 2 tablespoons of sugar and freshly chopped parsley.
This stew is served with dinner rolls called, “Mětinky”
In a medium bowl beat eggs, water and salt. Start adding the flour. Empty the bowl on a clean flat surface and knead all the flower into the dough.
The dough will be smooth but hard.
Divide the dough in two and roll each piece on a floured surface into very thin round shape.
Preheat the oven to 170 °F. Turn off the oven and place the dough on a baking rack in the oven to dry for 15 minutes. The flat piece will be stiff once ready.
Remove the piece on a cutting board and slice the dough along the side of the impressions that were created from the baking rack. Stack the pieces on top of each other and cut with a sharp knife thin noodles. These noodles can be used right away or let them dry on a baking sheet for day or two and store it in a Ziplock bag for later use
In a large cooking pan preheat the oil and sauté onion.
Add minced garlic.
Stir in carrots, potatoes, celery, and corn. Stir and cook for five minutes.
Add water, salt, beef bouillon, and marjoram. Bring to boil and add the mushrooms. Let cook on medium high for 30 minutes.
With a tool for mashing potatoes press few times in the pot to mash any large pieces of potatoes.
Now we are ready to thicken the soup. In a small frying pan, melt 4Tbs of butter and stir in 3 tablespoons of flour. Mix the flour and butter well. The rouge will change color as it cooks. Take off the stove when the color is light brown immediately pour the rouge into the boiling soup. Mix well and let cook for another five minutes.
This soup is best served with something sweet like Vdolky or Palačinky.
In a large mixing bowl cream butter and brown sugar.
Beat in molasses, egg, and rum until light and fluffy.
Mix in flour, baking soda, cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, and pepper.
Preheat the oven to 350° F.
From the dough shape little balls and place them on a cookie sheet about 2 inches apart.
Bake 12 minutes.
To finish these cookies you may coat them with powdered sugar or Dip them in the sugar glaze.
Sugar - Rum glaze:
2 cups of powdered sugar, 2 tablespoons of hot water, 1 tablespoon of vanilla and 1 tablespoon of rum flavoring.
With something sharp (toothpick, fork or a skewer) gently puncture the side of one cookie and dip the whole cookie in the glaze. Let drip the access glaze off and than place on a cooling rack to dry.
In a frying pan melt 2 tablespoons of butter and sauté chopped 1/2 of onion until golden brown color.
Cut the sliced ham into small pieces and stir into the onion.
In the bowl beat six eggs and season with salt and pepper.
Pour the eggs into the frying pan and constantly stir until eggs are fully cooked, then set aside.
Prepare nine slices of meat by seasoning them from both sides and placing them next to each other on a flat surface preferably cutting board.
On each slice spread a little bit of mustard; place one slice of cheese, and one spoon full of scrambled eggs.
Cut the carrots, pickles and hotdogs into quarters and then thirds, and place one wedge of each on top of the scrambled eggs.
Now wrap the meat around the filling and secure the top and ends with toothpicks.
Use the string to wrap around the meat tightly so no filling is visible.
Repeat this process with the rest of the rolls.
Chop one whole onion and sauté on 2 tablespoons of oil in a pressure cooker without the lid.
Add the beef rolls and stir them around. Make sure the rolls are brown from all sides.
Cook all the moisture out and let the onion stick to the bottom of the pan.
When the bottom is slightly brown add half a cup of water and stir while scraping the onion off the bottom.
Repeat this process one more time and then add 2- ½ cups of water into the pan along with one cube of beef flavored bouillon and salt and pepper.
Close the lid securely and turn the heat to high.
Once the lid starts steaming turn the heat to medium low and cook for 35 to 45 minutes.
Place the whole pressure cooker in the sink and let cold water run on top of the lid.
When the lid unlocks, open the pan, and remove rolls on a cutting board.
Take out all the toothpicks and remove the string. Bring the remaining liquid to a boil.
In a cup, mix ¼ cup of water with 2 tablespoons of flour and pour it into the liquid. With constant stirring cook for another two minutes.
