Gibanica

gužvara, Гибаница

Gibanica (serbian cyrillic: гибаница, pronounced [ˈɡibanit͡sa]) is a traditional pastry dish popular all over the balkans. it is usually made with cottage cheese and eggs. recipes can range from sweet to savoury, and from simple to festive and elaborate multi-layered cakes. a derivative of the serbo-croatian verb gibati/гибати meaning "to fold; sway, swing, rock", the pastry was mentioned in vuk stefanović karadžić's serbian dictionary in 1818 and by a slovenian priest jožef kosič in 1828, where it was described as a special slovenian cake which is "a must at wedding festivities and is also served to workers after finishing a big project". it is a type of layered strudel, a combination of...

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