Răureni

A spoonful of apricot jam on warm bread is a familiar Romanian breakfast, spread onto toast before school. This 270g (9.5oz) preserve is 45% aprico...

Coacăze negre grow in Romanian kitchen gardens, and the jam gets spooned onto plain buttered bread by the grandmother who boiled it. This is Rauren...

A jar of small pickled gherkins is always somewhere on a Romanian table, right next to the meat and the bread. These Răureni Castraveți în Oțet are...

Răureni Cauliflower in Vinegar is a 700g jar of pickled cauliflower florets from Răureni — the Romanian preserved-vegetable brand — in the muraturi...

Răureni compot de visine — Romania's sour cherry compote in light syrup, the Bucharest-pantry winter-dessert classic. Tart-bright, ruby-glossed, fr...

Quince jam spooned over warm bread or palačinke is an autumn taste carried straight from a Romanian grandmother's kitchen. Răureni's Dulceață de Gu...

Răureni Dulceata de Visine is a Romanian-style sour cherry preserve — whole morello cherries cooked in thick sugar syrup until glossy and dark — th...

Rosehip jam is the tart, deep-red spread that shows up in Romanian pantries when the more common fruits run out, prized for its sharper edge. Răure...

Dulceață de nuci verzi is the jar a Romanian host brings out on a small saucer with a glass of cold water, one dark walnut per guest. This is Raure...

Magiun simmering for hours in a copper pot until it turned almost black was how grandmothers stretched a plum harvest into a whole winter of breakf...

A bowl of red cabbage salad next to the roast is what a Romanian holiday table looks like, tart and crunchy against everything rich on the plate. T...

Carpathian petal tradition. Răureni cooks rose petals the old way — soft set, perfumed, the dulceață spoon-sweet served alongside cold water and Tu...

A jar of zacusca opened at breakfast meant vegetables slow-cooked down into something rich enough to spread on bread. Răureni's Spicy Zacuscă is pr...

Romania's sweetened chestnut puree from Răureni — slow-cooked chestnut into silky spread, ancestrally Romanian. Pale amber, nutty-mellow, the Bucha...

Dulceață de fructe de pădure is the jar Romanians reach for at papanași time, thick with blackcurrant, blackberry and raspberry off the hills. This...

Răureni Zacuscă cu Ciuperci (Zacuscă with Mushrooms) is a jar of Romanian vegetable spread enriched with mushrooms from Răureni — the Romanian pres...

Zacuscă is what a Romanian family cans in October, in a yard full of blistered peppers and roasted eggplant, to be opened one jar at a time all win...

Răureni Zacuscă Picantă — Romanian chili-warmed autumn preserve. The Picantă variant of Răureni's zacuscă line — slow-cooked gogoșari and eggplant ...

Raureni Zacusca Taraneasca Vegetable Spread is a 300g jar of traditional Romanian zacusca from Raureni — a Romanian specialty food producer in Valc...

Every Romanian pantry has a shelf of zacusca jars put up in the fall, a whole garden's worth of vegetables cooked down for the winter ahead. This i...