Baking

Maja Sirilo is a Serbian liquid animal rennet — the natural enzyme solution used to coagulate fresh milk into homemade white cheese, kajmak, urnebe...

The smell of fresh bread baking filled the kitchen every weekend growing up. This is di-go Instant Dry Baker's Yeast (Instant Suhi Pekarski Kvasac)...

Every Serbian baking drawer had a strip of Yumis vanilla sugar sachets, torn open one at a time whenever a cake needed that finishing sweetness. Ma...

Kibela Vinobran — a potassium metabisulfite preparation used to preserve homemade wine and fruit preserves. A winemaking and home-preservation aid ...

Holiday baking back home often meant a small packet of rum sugar disappearing into the batter while the kitchen filled with vanilla and rum scent. ...

C Slatka Tradicija Oblande Wafer Sheets — Serbian baking-tradition crisp wafer for layered desserts. Pre-baked thin wafer sheets in the Slatka Trad...

Bring a taste of hearty European tradition to your table with Delba Famous German Whole Rye Bread. This dense, authentic rye bread is a beloved sta...

Sunday afternoons meant baking a chocolate marble cake from a box mix, the whole kitchen smelling like home before the oven timer went off. Dr. Oet...

The smell of burek coming out of the oven is the smell of a weekend morning, with spinach and cheese the filling many families asked for first. Dje...

A bag of flour in the kitchen cupboard is where every home bake begins, from the Sunday cake to the pancakes made on a slow morning, with the whole...

Every German Oma reached for the Gustin box when a sauce had to turn silky or a cake had to come out light. Dr. Oetker Gustin Feine Speisestärke is...

Across Lebanon and the wider Levant, a bottle of rose water sits in nearly every pantry, splashed into ashta, knafeh syrup and Ramadan sweets. This...

Soda bikarbona in a small paper sachet is how Balkan home bakers buy it, one packet per cake, kept in the drawer next to the vanilla sugar. This is...

Every autumn Balkan kitchens fill with jars of ajvar, pickles and jam for the winter, and the little sachet of konzervans is the last thing stirred...

Dolce Maestro Sponge Cake Cream Mix (Бисквитена торта крем) is a Bulgarian baking mix for preparing a creamy sponge cake at home. Combine with the ...

Bradić Helida Heljdina Jufka are ready-rolled Serbian buckwheat phyllo sheets — thin, pliable pastry rounds made with genuine heljda (buckwheat) fl...

A few drops of rum essence went into every holiday cake batter grandmother made, the smell filling the kitchen before the oven even warmed up. Liva...

Chocolate pudding cooling in cups after Sunday lunch, with kids racing to lick the spoon, was a fixture in kitchens that kept a Dr. Oetker box in t...

The smell of spinach and cheese burek fresh from the pekara oven is the smell of a Balkan morning — Kadino brings that same filling home to your fr...

Growing up in Macedonia, burek was breakfast on the way to school, warm flaky filo straight from the pekara. Kadino, handcrafting filo since 1992 i...

This traditional Sarajevo Somun offers an authentic taste of Bosnian cuisine. Perfect for accompanying grilled meats or stews, its soft texture and...

Tearing open a warm somun on the walk home from the pekara is one of the clearest tastes of home for anyone who grew up in Bosnia. This Somun flatb...

Dark rye bread like this is the loaf that sat on the table beside soups and cold cuts, dense and slightly sour, the bread that filled you up. Amber...

Burek pulled hot from the oven, filling the whole stairwell with its smell on the way to school, is a Balkan morning in one bite. This is Bujrum, t...