Paprenjak

Paprenjak

Place of origin	Croatia
Main ingredients	Butter, sugar syrup or honey, eggs, walnuts or hazelnuts, black pepper, spices

Paprenjak^{[pronunciation?]} are a traditional biscuit made in Croatia. This peculiar biscuit contains a unique mix of honey and black pepper. The main ingredients are sugar syrup or honey, butter or fat, eggs, nuts (walnuts, hazelnuts), pepper and various spices (clove, cinnamon, nutmeg). Apart from the ingredients, Paprenjak is unique with its mould-pressed motifs used to decorate the biscuit. (see picture)

The Croatian author August Šenoa featured the biscuit in his novel "Goldsmith's gold" published in 1871:

“And thus it came to pass that she was called the Paprenjak lady: over the length and breadth of the city there was not a woman, noble or common, who could bake paprenjaks in the way that Magda knew. Day in and day out there was a run on her paprenjaks, and the city judge Ivan Blažeković himself was known to leave a pretty penny in her purse every so often.^[1][2]”