POTTING

 

BOWER

 

PEAR AND PLUMS

Pálinka is a traditional Central European fruit brandy made from fermented and distilled fruit mash, pomace, or lees. It is produced solely in Hungary and specific regions of Austria, utilizing local fruits such as plums, apricots, pears, cherries, quinces, and berries.

APPLE HARVEST IN HUNGARY - USUALLY IN THE SPRING

 

Apple harvest in Hungary occurs in chief growing regions and can be badly affected by drought.
The fruit is grown in the counties of Heves, Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén, Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok and Zala, but the most important production area is still Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg count.

FOLK LIFE PRESERVED ATA SKANZEN OPEN AIR MUSEUM - SZENTENDRE : WONDERFUL PLACES IN HUNGARY #14

SKANZEN OPEN AIR MUSEUM  SKANZEN ORG   in SZENTENDRE   

A non profit that is preserving the folk life - the houses, interior design, objects of art and use, recipes... Look on line here...

Is it time to make ELDER FLOWER JUICE?  The recipe is online...

EXCERPT: The more and more elaborate settlement plan appropriates the relocation of more than 400 edifices into the museum, arranged into village-like regional units on the basis of ethnographical considerations.  Within the unites buildings are fitted into the traditional system of peasant households, supplemented by sacred, communal and outbuildings which used to be integral parts of traditional villages.  Dwellings and farm-buildings represent the typical houses and outbuildings having evolved historically in each region....

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APPLE HARVEST

 

BULL COW CALF - FAMILY PORTRAIT

They seem so at peace.

 

THE PUMPKIN in HUNGARIAN FOOD CULTURE ; ARE YOU PUMPKIN HAPPY? TOK

 THE CULTURE TRIP on HUNGARIAN PHRASES including PUMPKIN

Excerpt: Tök (tewk)

Meaning : Very (literally 'pumpkin'

In addition to the wide variety of pumpkins grown on Hungarian soil, the local language is also flush with the tasty squash. Often used to mean 'very' the phrase is an endearing intensifier to add emphasis to your sentences.  You can be tok bolddog (pumpkin happy), tok szomoru (pumpkin sad) or things can be tok jo rossz (pumpkin good - bad).  After all, why limit pumpkins to your dinner plate?

FIRST CROP TO COME IN ? STRAWBERRIES - EPER

 

NATIVE FRUITS OF OUR HUNGARIAN ANCESTORS : I GUARANTEE MOST AMERICANS HAVE NOT HEARD OF ALL OF THESE!

DAILY NEWS HUNGARY : NATIVE FRUIT OF OUR HUNGARIAN ANCESTORS

BLACKBERRY - MULBERRY - CORNELIAN - SORB - SEA BUCKHORN -

From the plains to the mountains to the sea....

GRAINS

HUNGARIAN URBARIUM 1767 : AN INTENSE LOOK AT POWER BEING PLAYED OUT: GENEALOGY PRO TIP #5

HUNGARIAN URBARIUM 1767 : AN INTENSE LOOK AT POWER BEING PLAYED OUT: GENEALOGY PRO TIP #5

HUNGARICANA UBARIUM 1767 -  BEREG COUNTY - I read every town front page of this county looking for a few names that come up in my own genealogy - and was unsettled to see how power was being played out.  THE VAST MAJORITY of the places were entirely owned by one person, listed as Count Eugene - of the Schonbrun.  Even when a small place had a large number of property owners and the parcels were small - say about as big as a garden needs to be to feed a family - it seems this Count had one, so he had presence everywhere. (Can you imagine what it must have been to be a farmer who counted his blessings every day that he had managed to not be a serf, yet be working his fields next to the property of a powerful, possibly nosey Count?

Years ago I was reading about the freeing of the serfs in Russia and I read all the things that these laborers who didn't even rent the land they farmed and had to turn over most of what they produced to the Lord of the Manor (or the owner of the property that they lived on and worked on.) I read a list of the things he had to provide to them, and though I'm sure that by today's standards they lived a difficult and exhausting life and were poor in the extreme, TODAY THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT DOES NOT HAVE TO MAKE SURE THAT EACH CITIZEN HAS AS MUCH!  

When you go to a town listed in a county in Hungary in 1767, and that includes the counties that go all the way up to the then Polish border, over to Austria, and including present day Croatia and Slovenia, you will find people who have the abbreviation GR next to their name, and those are the Grofs or "Counts."  But there are also lots of people listed with BR next to their name meaning Baron. The GR is a class rank, and it doesn't always mean the greatest wealth, but does indicate power when the person owns many folds; think acres although this measurement hasn't always been consistent. 

Now, as you go to the lists that are inside the book (handwritten) for that particular person listed in the searchable text, say EUGENE, you get to see how many people are living on a property he owns that are renting land from him and how many are serfs and other notes.  You also get to see how many are living or working in buildings he owns who pay rent. My guess is that EUGENE has been granted almost the entire county or the Hapsburgs have bought all that property for him to govern. A little further research and there is a possibility that this EUGENE may be a COUNT of, but his surname probably is not Shonbrun.  It might be SAVOY...

Is your personal situation in this life much different that the serfs?

(To get to all the posts/genealogy tips regarding the NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF HUNGARY/ Hungaricana's URBARIUM 1767 you can search this BLOG by looking through my archives, through searching for the word URBARIUM using the Google Search Feature embedded in the blog, or by clicking on the link at the bottom of the post.)

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RED SLUDGE MAKES IT TO THE DANUBE in HUNGARY - BREAKING NEWS

"The concentration of TOXIC HEAVY METALS  where Hungary's massive red sludge spill entered the Danube has dropped to the level allowed in drinking water, authorities said Friday, easing fears that Europe's second longest river would be significantly polluted.


Monday's reservoir break at an ALUNIMA PLANT  dumped up to 700,000 cubic meters (184 million gallons) of sludge onto three villages, government officials said, not much less in a few hours than the 200 million gallons the blown-out BP oil well gushed into the Gulf of Mexico over several months."


PABLO GORONDI reports for Associated Press - click on the title to get to the full news article!

PLUMS in Hungarian is SZILVA

Every once in a while, usually at either a gourmet store or a dollar store I find fruit preserves imported from Hungary... Plum, Peach, Apricot, or Cherry.