with Reka Csulak
The first Gundel pancakes were created by Károly Gundel around the '40-s. Officially it was a family recipe of Lola, the wife of Gundel's friend Sándor Márai, but Gundel upgraded the recipe and made the pancake with ground walnuts, raisins, and rum filling served in a dark chocolate sauce. They started to call it Márai pancake, …
This dish is a popular dessert in many former parts of the Habsburg Monarchy but maybe it is familiar from your last Alpine ski strip too. In Germany and Austria it's called Kaiserschmarrn, we call it császármorzsa in Hungary, in Slovenia it's cesarski praženec or šmorn and Czech people call it kajzršmorn. It's a kind of scrambled pancake batter but …