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Cousine and
Restaurants
 In
the past the dwellers of this area were mostly cattle -
breeders, farmers, millers, lumberjacks and woodworkers.
Their way of life greatly determined their diet and cooking.
The food was kept on
the earth, in "rukace", the earthenware. Bread, the basic
food, was made mostly of corn, and baked covered by ash and
live coals in the hearth. Later "peke" or "pekve"
(earthenware) were used, made by the local potters. Hard -
boiled corn mush was also often prepared which were cooked
from the cereals (oats, barley and millet), and seasoned
with butter.
Milk, which was
plentiful in this cattle breeding parts, was prepared in
various ways: sour or sweet. "Kiselina" (sour milk) as well
as cheese, butter, "basa" (soft cheese made of "skorupa")
and cream were made on daily basis.
In cheese making rennet
was used, and butter was prepared in "stap", the special
container. The dairy products were mostly used during
summer, with fresh or cooked vegetables, and dry - cured
meet (smoked ham, bacon, sausages). One of the main
delicacies was roasted lamb.
 The
most popular cakes were "masnica" (shortbread filled with
onion, cheese, smoked ham or sweet cheese and raisins),
potato and cabbage pies, form cakes, doughnuts and different
sorts of strudels.
In wintertime smoked
meat was mostly cooked with potatoes and sauerkraut, beans,
turnip or kohlrabi. The pickled vegetables was eaten as a
salad with the hard - boiled corn mush.
Since the woods were
the part of the dweller's lives it was used as the source of
food. People went game hunting often (dormice were a
delicacy) and they gathered wild berries. Mushrooms were
collected in the woods, too: morels, beech - sticks, field
mushrooms. It is quite surprising that, even though the
lakes were nearby, the dwellers rarely went fishing. they
mostly caught trout in the brooks of Plitvica, Sartuk and
Jasenica.
 Even
today, a part of that old feeling is at disposal to our
visitors through the rich gastronomical offering of Plitvice
Lakes National Park. Visitors that only pass by, can here
acquire some of the more traditional food of the area, while
ones with acquired taste will be indulged by specialties and
ambiance of the Licka house restaurant. Within the complex
of the Park there are two more restaurants - Borje and
Poljana, accompanied by many smaller establishments offering
refreshments to weary travelers.
Restaurants
LIČKA KUĆA Tel. +385 53 751 024
POLJANA Tel. +385 53 751
092
BORJE
Tel. +385 53 751 777
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