Trying out some Czech cookery

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My friend’s partner is Czech, and when I was at their house recently we were sorting a few things and I started leafing through a book of Czech and Slovenian cookery. There were some interesting things in there and she said she had never tried very many of them so I was tempted to give it a go. The first recipe I tried was this fruit cake called ‘Bublanina’. You won’t be surprised to hear that I made it with jostaberries from the freezer. The result was excellent. It uses a lot of eggs which are beaten with icing sugar, so I guess that is the secret to making it so light and fluffy. The only difficulty is not eating too much of it! At the same time I also made a gluten-free version, exactly the same as the other but using supermarket gluten-free plain flour and baking powder, and that worked out really well as well - in fact we could barely tell the difference between them. As usual I ate most of it before thinking of taking a photo but in fact it did turn out looking just like the picture! All rights reserved. © Text copyright Fleur 2026.