# @_hjcook on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DVoBK0wDFkS
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- **Posted:** 2026-03-08T13:35:24.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** JACK COOK (@_hjcook) — https://gondola.cc/_hjcook

## Caption

Cooking the Comments | Svickova 🇨🇿

Beef:
3 pounds whole beef (e.g. top blade)
5 ounces fat bacon for larding meat
1 ½ Tablespoons lard (or sunflower / canola oil)
1 teaspoon ground black pepper
2 teaspoon salt
water to cover meat while simmering

Vegetables for Svíčková base:
2 medium carrots
2 medium parsley root
7 ounces celeriac
3 medium onions
1 medium apple
½ stick unsalted butter
½ cup granulated sugar
⅓ cup vinegar 5% acidity

Spices:
6 bay leaves
10 allspice balls
10 peppercorns

Roux
3 Tablespoons all-purpose flour
½ stick unsalted butter

To finish svíčková:
1 cup heavy cream

To garnish:
sliced lemon, whipped cream, lingonberry jam

Knedliky:

3 ⅔ cups all-purpose flour
1 ¼ cup lukewarm milk
1 ½ cup bread cubes made from stale white bread, cut into ⅓-inch pieces
1 egg
1 ½ teaspoons active dry yeast or 20 g fresh yeast
½ teaspoon salt
½ teaspoon granulated sugar

#cooking #recipe #czech #svickova #czechfood

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