Protected Slovak products

Protected Slovak products

The first protected Slovak product is a "Skalický trdelník", a Slovakia's Second EU Protected Product Slovak is a bryndza sheep's cheese.

"Skalický trdelník"is the sweet speciality from Záhorie .The traditional production method consists of winding a risen soft dough onto a roller called ‘trdlo’. After being wound onto the roller, the dough must be coated with beaten egg whites and sprinkled with chopped walnuts, almonds or apricot kernels, or a mixture of them. Trdelník should be baked by radiant heat until golden and, when finished, it is sprinkled with caster sugar mixed with vanilla sugar. The result is a fine bakery product of hollow cylindrical shape.

Another of typical Slovak delicacies is Slovak bryndza sheep's cheese .
Natural sheep milk is the basis for the production of traditional bryndza, with lump sheep cheese to be made of the milk. The cheese is then modified in a bryndza-producing facility to give rise to soft, salty substance with a distinctive taste that is known abroad as the "Liptov cheese" or Liptauer.
Bryndza is also used in the preparation of a Slovak national meal called bryndzové halušky (potato dumplings with bryndza).