Just Arrived: EBBP Parcel from Hungary  Add/Read Comments

So, despite discovering the gap in the Hungarian porcelain figurine market, (which if truth be told I am very pleased about really, as knick-knacks and me don’t go), I think I am a very lucky boy this week! A marvellous collection of Hungarian goodies arrived today – a bit worried though that Tüzes Patkó (fiery horseshoe) is actually made of horse (better than sparrow mind) and that the Puszta ize (paprika sauce, from Gizella’s home town of Kiskunfélegyháza) will be too hot for my delicate English palate. (delicate? Yeh, right - I should relate the story of the four mouse-shit peppers in Kanchanaburi, Thailand!)

Then there are the chocolates, and the homemade plum jam (szilva) and TWO bottles of Tokaji (one sweet, the other dry). Plus there are three huge marzipan sweets/cakes(?) made by, Szamos, one of the top confectioners in Hungary. Each is flavoured with hazelnut, orange and pistachio. Delicious. Yes indeed, I do think I have done very well indeed from this round of Euro Blogging By Post.

Sok köszönet Gizella (aubergine.freeblog.hu).

PS Thanks Johanna for hosting.

UPDATE: I actually misread Gizella's letter. The picture below is of 'barack' - cookies made by her own fair hands. Wondered why I couldn't taste marzipan! The marzipan sweets are in the little red box above - labelled, as you would expect, with the name of the producer Szamos. I have just guzzeled the last one.