Mirtill Seregély
Bio:Mirtill Seregély – self-employed handcrafter, gingerbread baker, teacher of traditional honeycake making. I live 23kms from the city of Budapest, in the countryside, in village of Mogyoród, my home is my office, exhibition room for my mould collection, I bake my cookies in my own kitchen. I also rent a workshop room in the city center of Budapest, where visitors can attend my classes. I am a freelancer, I work at festivals, teach in museums, schools, hold private classes. I have been collecting hand carved wooden molds for 12 years now, after the first years, I started baking with them. A beautiful journey has started, secrets of many centuries of gingerbread making, hand carved Saints, cradles, dolls and hearts, birds and flowers, recipes found their way to my heart and my hands and tempted me to keep on my research. And I shared what I had, because my target was to bring hand carved gingerbread designs back to life. With the help of a 3 years scholarship program provided by the Hungarian Academy of Arts (MM
Hungary, Budapest
Location
Hungary, Budapest
Full Address
Hungary, Budapest Bartók Béla út 46.
Social Media link
https://www.facebook.com/carvedhoneycakemolds
The “Carved Honeycake Moulds” workshop provides the unique opportunity to learn and experience how to make handmade traditional molded gingerbread/honeycake cookies with wooden moulds. Visitors will learn about the history of European and Hungarian gingerbread making, about the symbolic messages of motifs carved into hard wood gingerbread moulds. During the workshop we work with a unique collection of antique and newly carved wooden forms with religious and folk-art designs. Visitors can make, bake and wrap their own honeycake souvenirs. I share my knowledge and special honeycake dough recipe during the workshop.
