John H. Mutchek V » Food http://www.mutchek.com/blog works, writings, and creations Wed, 04 Jul 2007 00:43:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 en Grandma Mutchek’s Potica http://www.mutchek.com/blog/2005/01/03/grandma-mutcheks-potica/ http://www.mutchek.com/blog/2005/01/03/grandma-mutcheks-potica/#comments Tue, 04 Jan 2005 01:29:14 +0000 jmutchek http://mutchek.com/blog/?p=5 Some recipes are as important to family memory and they are good to eat. My great-grandmother’s potica recipe is one of those recipes. While she never wrote the specific recipe down, she passed on the technique to my grandfather, who took enough notes for my father to piece together this, more formal, recipe.

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