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Preparation info
  • Serves

    6 to 8

    as a main dish
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Zingerman’s Bakehouse Celebrate Every Day: A Year's Worth of Favorite Recipes for Festive Occasions, Big and Small

By Amy Emberling, Lindsay-Jean Hard, Lee Vedder and Corynn Coscia

Published 2024

  • About

This Hungarian-inspired soup is one of our most popular, hands-down; we’ve been making it once a week since at least 2010. While we rotate our soups out with the seasons and the interests of our Bakeshop guests, Gabor’s (as we refer to it) has rarely come off the shop’s soup menu.

From a cook’s perspective, this soup has a few points of interest. First, we make it with a pork stock, which we haven’t come across much in our culinary adventures. Then comes the use of lard. In Hungary,