PING: Bubba Vic

Melba's Jammin said:

Victor, dollink, do you know anything about "crema" (I've no clue about
the spelling) -- something that is an integral ingredient in Hungarian
gulyas and the reason it (gulyas) cant be made like the real deal in
Budapest? Maybe comes in a tube?

I rather suspect it is gulyáskrém, either csipös (spicy) or csemege
(mild). If so, it is a spice mix paste, a convenience product, which
indeed often enough comes in a tube. If you want to try it, it is
easily found online, even in the USA (look for "goulash cream"😉. If
someone actually told you it is necessary to produce authentic gulyás,
please tell that person to go enjoy him- or herself at a certain place
believed to be supernaturally hot. In any case, there are no
ingredients in any of the authentic actual gulyás versions that couldn't
be found elsewhere. Here is a list of what is commonly found in a true
gulyás:

beef
lard
onions
paprika (édesnemes, "noble sweet)
salt
caraway
garlic
potatoes
green peppers
tomatoes
little dumplings (either galuska or csipetke)

There are regional and other variations:

- Szegedi gulyás (Szeged-style): with fewer potatoes and with
finely-diced roots.
- Alföldi gulyás (Alföld-style): same as Szeged-style, but with no
dumplings.
- Vajdasági gulyás (Voivodina-style): Savoy cabbage is added, but there
are fewer potatoes and no dumplings.
- Koloszvári gulyás (Koloszvár/Cluj-style): white cabbage is added, but
there are fewer potatoes and no dumplings.
- Gulyás with beans: same list as above, but adding beans and removing
potatoes and caraway.
- Gulyás with mutton/lamb: beef is replaced with mutton or lamb.
- Csángó gulyás: potatoes are replaced with sauerkraut and dumplings
with rice. Before serving, sour cream is added. (Csángó are ethnic
Hungarians living in Romania, mostly Bucovina region).

Victor

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(Victor Sack) said:

Melba's Jammin said:

Victor, dollink, do you know anything about "crema" (I've no clue about
the spelling) -- something that is an integral ingredient in Hungarian
gulyas and the reason it (gulyas) cant be made like the real deal in
Budapest? Maybe comes in a tube?

I rather suspect it is gulyáskrém, either csipös (spicy) or csemege
(mild). If so, it is a spice mix paste, a convenience product, which
indeed often enough comes in a tube. If you want to try it, it is
easily found online, even in the USA (look for "goulash cream"😉. If
someone actually told you it is necessary to produce authentic gulyás,
please tell that person to go enjoy him- or herself at a certain place
believed to be supernaturally hot. In any case, there are no
ingredients in any of the authentic actual gulyás versions that couldn't
be found elsewhere. Here is a list of what is commonly found in a true
gulyás:

(snips)

Quoted message said:

Victor

Thanks, Bubba. I'll pass the info along.

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