Editing Hungarian cuisine (section)

==Special occasions==

[[File:Pörkölt.jpg|thumb|''Pörkölt'' with ''[[spätzle|nokedli]]''.]]

For Christmas, Hungarians have a fish soup called ''[[halászlé]]''. Other dishes may be served, such as [[roast goose]], [[Turkey (food)|roast turkey]] or [[Duck (food)|roast duck]],<ref>Hungarian cuisine, József Venesz {{ISBN|963-13-0219-9}}: Corvina Press 1977</ref> [[cabbage rolls]] ''(töltött káposzta)''. Pastry roll filled with walnut or poppy seed called ''(bejgli)'' is a usual Christmas food, and candies and sweets used to decorate the Christmas tree, such as [[szaloncukor]] are eaten during all Christmas, when everybody picks them and eats them directly from the tree. In some households, Lentil stew, also known as 'Lencse Fozelek', is consumed to bring good luck and health in the upcoming years.
[[File:Pozsonyi kifli.jpg|thumb|251x251px|Pozsonyi kifli in a basket]]
Other traditional foods such as Pozsonyi kifli, a type of Bejgli is also commonly eaten in Christmas dinners (Pozsony being the original name of Bratislava), next to regular Bejglies and Strudels(rétes).

On [[New Year's Eve]] (''Szilveszter''), Hungarians traditionally celebrate with ''virsli'' ([[Vienna sausage]]) and [[lentil soup]]. On [[New Year's Day]], it is common to eat either lentil soup or ''korhelyleves'', a meaty [[sauerkraut]] soup said to cure [[hangover]]s.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.chew.hu/korhelyleves/ |title=Korhelyleves: Cabbage Soup |archive-url=https://archive.today/20131229162038/http://www.chew.hu/korhelyleves/ |archive-date=2013-12-29 |work=Chew.hu }}</ref> 
[[File:Pogácsa.jpg|thumb|Hungarian pogácsa often made with pork rind, cheese or sugar sprinkled on top. It can have bread, meize, [[Smetana (dairy product)|smetana]] and potato dough. ]]
There is also a lot of superstition attached to New Year's food: on New Year's Eve, a coin is baked into the [[Pogača|pogácsa]]. Whoever finds the lucky coin will have a lucky and prosperous New Year. But all the scones have to be gone before midnight, otherwise everything goes the other way.

It was tradition to bake rétes (strudels) as long as possible, because then you would be that much richer the following year.

It is also tradition for girls to put small pieces of paper with a man's name in the middle of dumplings or other raw dough. At exactly midnight, they threw them into the boiling water, the first male name that came up revealing the name of their future husband.

[[Easter]] is considered a huge event (''Húsvét'') and is celebrated all over Hungary. The families and their friends have the Mom and daughter prepare meals such as Smoked Ham with boiled eggs and small sandwiches and drinks quite commonly to have [[palinka]] on the table and then wait for Fathers and sons to arrive and say a poem (Husvéti Vers) and then spray on their hair with a perfume. Once the Father and son water the Mom and daughters known as ''Locsolkodás''. They have a meal a drink then they go to the next family member until they visited all. In [[Szabolcs County]] make a special sweet yellow cheese, ''[[Sárgatúró]]'', made with [[Quark (dairy product)|quark]] (túró) and eggs.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.magyarnews.org/news.php?viewStory=1162 |title=Sárga túró (Yellow Cheese) |language=en |work=Magyar News |date= 2013-02-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140223204821/http://www.magyarnews.org/news.php?viewStory=1162|archive-date=2014-02-23}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Néprajzi tanulmányok: Prof. Ujváry Zoltán tiszteletére|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=J9DWAAAAMAAJ|publisher=Hajdú-Bihar Megyei Múzeumok Igazgatósága|year=1992|author=Ujváry Zoltán, Szathmáry V. Ibolya|pages=152}}</ref> The kalács eaten then is often called ''pászkakalács''.