Taste of Cankar's period
Hungry?
Would you like to eat as Cankar ate? Simply come to Vrhnika, where you will be
served wonderfully fragrant dishes …
In recent
years, at Vrhnika, we are trying to revive the traditional, locally typical
food. And certainly dishes from Cankar’s period are a big part of that. With
our greatest writer, his works and the period in which he lived in mind, we
created two delicious menus, which can be ordered in several restaurants in
Vrhnika: Cankar's lunch and Cankar's feast.
Cankar's lunch
- potato soup ('zaroštan krompir')
- 'prešce' (small buns flavoured with tradition)
- 'štruklji' with dried plums
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Cankar's feast
- beef soup
- potatoes with herbs
- veal roast
- seasonal salad
- 'štruklji' with dried plums
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'Prešce' - small buns flavoured with tradition
‘Prešce’ deserve
a special mention. ‘Prešce’ are small buns flavoured with tradition, of which
Cankar spoke in many of his works. In the past, we Slovenes had an interesting
tradition which accompanied All Saints’ Day on the 1st of November.
At the day of this holiday housewives baked a large number of buns. For this
they used all the different types of flour they had at hand. Then they distributed
these buns to children and beggars in front of the church or cemetery. In some
places, the children themselves went from house to house and in return for
praying for the deceased they would get ‘prešce’ or ‘vahtiče’. Many poor
families collected the buns that children brought home – dried bread helped
them survive the winter. Some housewives baked hundreds of buns … But, it was
believed, that each and every bun had to be distributed, otherwise the next
year’s harvest would be poor.
Today, ‘prešce’
are considered a small brunch or a snack. You are able to enjoy the modern
version – tasty buns from different types of flour with a variety of fillings.