On 17 April 2008 PaprikaMolnar’s Paprika Museum opened and since then every April we like to look at and celebrate what we did, how we fared and what was good about the past year. I can hardly believe that in 2021 the Paprika Mill and Museum is celebrating its 13th birthday! A small family entreprise…
In 1958 the Hungarian Radio broadcast a cabaret series under the name Pesti paprika. The cabaret scenes are sassy, witty and funny and they give a whole new meaning to the terms “paprika” and “spice”. According to the cabaret host, Pesti paprika is a lot older than Szegedi paprika, it is as old as Buda…
In the Hungarian calendar we call the 12th, 13th and 14th of May as the name or feast-days of St. Pancras, St. Servatius and St. Boniface of Tarsus respectively. These three saints are referred to as the Ice Saints in many European countries and this name comes from the traditional belief that frost is likely…
The third week of May has been pretty busy for PaprikaMolnar: after several starts and stops and restarts we eventually transplanted our paprika seedlings to their final place in our farm. It’s a small plot of land this year, but planting has never been so hard with rain coming down every day, between which we…
It is paprika planting time and we very much hope the Ice Saints next week will come unnoticed! The days of the Ice Saints Pancras, Servatius and Boniface on the 12th, 13th and 14th of May are yet to come and although these past few days have been rather cold and threatened with night frost,…
Now that the Ice Saints are gone and we may no longer expect night frost, the seedling is ready to be removed from its sowbed. This is a nursery or hotbed, these days it is a foil tunnel, where between mid-March and mid-May paprika seeds germinate and grow into seedlings or plantlings. The plants are…