Grandmother's kitchen

Breakfast

Usually, housewives prepared the following for breakfast:

• cabbage and 'zganci' (hard-boiled corn mush) or
• milk and 'zganci' or
• turnip with larded corn flour or
• larded potatoes or
• wheat porridge or
• 'prezganka', roux soup: a soup made by browning flour on lard and adding water; with 'zganci' or dry bread or
• at feast at which the meet of freshly slaughtered animals, especially pork was eaten: black pudding with 'zganci' or with bread made of mixed flour or
• coffee substitute made of cereals known as "white coffee" (they cooked the following commonly known commercial types: 'Cikorija', 'Proja' and 'Knajp') and 'zganci' or
• nowadays, bread and tea.

When they ran out of milk they also prepared 'prezganka' for breakfast. 'Prezganka' with 'mlinci', a type of flat unleavened bread, was considered to be a special breakfast and, for example, was prepared for woodcutters in winter before they went to forest cutting down trees.