How To Make Hrapoćuša – Traditional Cake From Brač Island
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Although Brač island is famous for its “white stone”, known as Brački Kamen, there is that one village that was built with a totally different type of stone. It was built with hrapaćuša/hrapoćuša stone. It looks very coarse even somehow awkward, and it was used for making houses, building drywalls and almost everything else that needed to be built. That place is Dol, which is hidden in the middle of Brač Island.
In honor of this life-giving stone, the ladies of Dol developed a cake that shares the same name and a lot of similarities in its appearance.
When we come to look for a recipe for hrapoćuša, it’s here we find a big problem – every house has their own secret way of making it. And, every woman jealously guards her recipe and those secret are passed to the younger generations by means of oral tradition so it’s almost even impossible to find two identical recipes…
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