Wine Cellar Snack · Cracklings Biscuit
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They descend from the Hungarian pogácsa, a family of small savory scones found across the former Habsburg lands.
Small, dense savory biscuits made from a lard-and-pork-crackling dough, baked until crisp on the outside and soft within, sold at Moravian wine festivals and market stalls alongside burčák and wine tastings.
Why it's made this way: It's a wine-region snack built to be sturdy and salty enough to hold its own next to a glass of new wine, drawing on South Moravia's tradition of pig-slaughter cracklings and lard-based baking.
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