Join my discovery of the poticnica. It's the traditional Slovenian pottery bowl for baking potica, the most well-known form being nut roll. As a potter and the families potica baker when I learned of its revival in Slovenia, I knew I had to learn to make it.
As a potter when first seen it was hard to imagine a pot so altered was made on a potter's wheel and took some research to work out the complexities of forming one. In the modern era it's making could have been lost except for a few Slovenian potters. I look to Franc Kremzar, his daughter is now a next generation, and another young potter is breathing new life into an old form. I look to follow them, adapt my decorative elements and share with the Slovenian American community.
As the families potica baker I will never have the years of experience of my grandmother and her mother. With no one to show me and it not clearly spelled out in the many recipes in my grandmothers' handwritten book I got the seal of approval when a cousin uttered those words 'it's just like grandmas'. I've done the poppy seed and nontraditional apricot. Now with the poticnica in one hand and 'Woman's Glory the Kitchen' 1951 from the Slovenian Women's Union of America I've done the tarragon and chives. Without following the recipe because in 51 they forgot how to use fresh herbs I rejoined the dish of potica with the dish the poticnica.
I'm hoping to get further into my discovery at 'Slovenefest', a festival of Slovenian culture located between Pittsburgh and Clevland. fb.watch/liabL... Hopping to that they will accept me as the Slovenian American potter.
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20 june 2023
jeffrey rogue kohut
rooster hill farm (& pottery)
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