Something sweet

Crust:
400 g all-purpose flour
100 g sugar
½ baking powser
200 – 250 g butter
a bit of a milk, cream, whey or Tatra

Filling:
apples, pears, apricots, jam,…

For crust:

In a bowl combine flour, baking powder, and sugar. Add butter. If dough is too dry add some milk. Make a tougher dough.

For filling:

Peel and dice the fruits. Stew them with a bit of a water, sugar, cinnamon and a lemon juice. Let it cool down.

Divide dough into 2 pieces - roll bigger piece out and place it into a cake pan. Spread the filling on it. Roll out second dough piece. Cut it into strips.  Form lattice. Bake in a preheated oven for 20-30 minutes at 180 - 200°C. After cooling down dust pie with a powdered sugar.

This amount of ingredients is enough for a round cake pan, for big baking tray double the amount of ingredients.

6 dl all-purpose flour
3 dl sugar
150 g butter
½ baking powder
½ teaspoon of turmeric
¼ l milk
fruits – currants, apricots, raspberries, rhubarb,…

In a bowl combine flour, sugar and butter. Divide dough into 2 pieces - smaller piece for the streusel. Add baking powder and turmeric into bigger dough piece. Mix it all and only afterwards add milk. Grease baking tray and dust it with semolina. Pour pie butter into the baking tray. Spread the filling. Sprinkle streusel over filling and bake at 180 - 200°C in preheated oven for 20-30 minutes.

500 g grated carrots
150 g sugar
1 – 2​​​​​ cardamom seeds
1,5 l milk
bit of raisins
ghee

First of all boil milk. In higher skillet roast carrots with a bit of ghee. Add boiling milk and sugar. Stir until halwa turns thick. After all add grounded cardamom seeds and raisins.

5 dl semolina
1 l milk or water
200 – 250 g butter
3 – 4 dl sugar
2 bananas or 1 dl raisins or finely chopped nuts

In a skillet melt ghee and add semolina. Stir until semolina gets brown (20-30 minutes). Mash banana and add it into semolina. Afterwards carefully add milk. It is better to add warm milk with melted sugar. Stir continuously until halwa turns to a thick pudding consistency and doesn't stick to the skillet. Instead of banana you can use chopped pineapple, apricots or apples.

120 g butter
125 g powdered milk
115 g powdered sugar

Flavours:
carob
mashed bananas, dates, grounded nuts, almonds or coconuts
vanilla

Mix all ingredients, form balls and chill. If necessary add more milk or sugar. When using mashed bananas add more milk powder.

3 l yogurt
lemon peel powder
2 dl sugar

Pour yogurt into a muslin cheese cloth or a kitchen cotton towel, tie the edges and hung the muslin on a hook for 10 hours. Add lemon peel and a sugar. Mix it well. You can also add fresh strawberries or blueberries.

1 dl rice
4 dl milk
1 dl sugar

Add sugar into milk and boil it. Add rice and cook on a low heat until half of a milk gets evaporated. At the begging stir only sometimes but when pudding turns thick stir continuously so that milk won't get burnt. Serve chilled. You can also add vanilla, rose water, saffron, cardamom, nuts or raisins for a flavour.