{"id":3539,"date":"2019-05-20T12:59:10","date_gmt":"2019-05-20T10:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metelka.cz\/?p=3539"},"modified":"2022-11-09T21:42:20","modified_gmt":"2022-11-09T20:42:20","slug":"pastry-chef-martin-polanecky-metelkas-eggnog-i-like-the-most","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metelka.cz\/en\/gastronomie-en\/pastry-chef-martin-polanecky-metelkas-eggnog-i-like-the-most\/","title":{"rendered":"Pastry-chef Martin Polaneck\u00fd: Metelka\u2019s eggnog I like the most"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 120%;\">Viktoria pastry shop based in Prague has a big name in the industry. Cakes and petits fours are prepared by a team of twenty people under the leadership of a pastry-chef Martin Polaneck\u00fd. More than two hundred wholesale customers regularly take Viktoria\u2019s amazing products from their small factory in Prague 3. Among these customers, you can find prestigious hotels, catering companies, and restaurants. Their products are not only beautiful, but they are also excellent in taste as more than thousand wedding attendants, birthday persons, hosts of the World Ice Hockey Championship, Davis Cup and Laver Cup held in Prague can confirm.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-GB\">Neither one of ten thousands satisfied customers are unaware of some traditional delicacies from Viktoria being prepared with Moravsk\u00fd Vaje\u010dn\u00fd Tradi\u010dn\u00ed. <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-GB\">&#8216;<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-GB\">We\u2019ve tasted six or seven eggnogs but not a single one hasn\u2019t been as good as Metelka\u2019s. Its taste and consistency is just perfect for our products,<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-GB\">&#8216;<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-GB\"> Martin Polaneck\u00fd praises its features. They use almost four hundred litres of Moravsk\u00fd Vaje\u010dn\u00fd Tradi\u010dn\u00ed every year. They use it for cognac and caramel desserts, Christmas sweets, or pralines called Eggnog. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-GB\">The renowned professional, who has been in the business for more than twenty years, emphasizes that they use only fresh and high-quality ingredients in Viktoria. Their products are based on traditional recipes and procedures. <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-GB\">&#8216;<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-GB\">We made our own petits fours, cakes, ice cream, mini desserts, pralines, and chocolate as well. We work only with real whipped cream, butter, flour, and milk. When we prepare chocolate products we use only a high-quality chocolate, usually, from a French chocolatery Cacao Berry,<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-GB\">&#8216;<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-GB\"> says Martin Polaneck\u00fd. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-GB\">The amount of ingredients they use in a year is astonishing. They used almost 15,000 litres of heavy cream, 11,000 kilograms of sugar, and 160,000 eggs in 2017. Martin Polaneck\u00fd expects from all ingredients to be in high quality and this is valid even for liqueurs. Eggnog isn\u2019t the only one liqueur used in Viktoria. <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-GB\">&#8216;<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-GB\">In addition to eggnog, we also work with tuzem\u00e1k. Without these products, I don\u2019t think any Czech pastry-chef would survive. But not all my colleagues have the same opinion because they are able to put anything in their products, such as artificial aromas,<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-GB\">&#8216;<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-GB\"> shakes his head. He admits to like an orange liqueur. <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-GB\">&#8216;<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-GB\">It\u2019s great in taste and it can be added to many products,<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-GB\">&#8216;<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-GB\"> he says. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-GB\">However, he admits that some customers don\u2019t like alcohol in petits fours. <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-GB\">&#8216;<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-GB\">When they find out, they don\u2019t allow children to eat it. Even our grandmothers and mothers have always put a little bit of alcohol into cakes or Christmas sweets. Children always have been allowed to eat these sweets,<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-GB\">&#8216; smiles the pastry-chef of Viktoria. &#8216;I\u2019ve noticed this trend of &#8216;modern&#8217; moms who take their children to pastry shops and dictate them what to eat. If it\u2019s unhealthy, children can\u2019t eat it. I just don\u2019t get why they even take their children here. Sometimes, I experience many comic situations,&#8217; he says in disbelief. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-GB\">Despite negative public opinion on Czech customers, Martin Polaneck\u00fd thinks that a Czech customer appreciates the quality and the Czech tradition. &#8216;At least, this is our experience. Quality production of sweets reflects our effort to honour the nostalgia of pastry shops during the First Czechoslovak Republic era. We offer only the best and always fresh products and Metelka\u2019s products help us a lot,&#8217; the boss of the pastry shop Viktoria in Prague appreciates the liqueurs. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-GB\">More info here<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cukrarstvi-viktoria.cz\"><strong>www.cukrarstvi-viktoria.cz<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Viktoria pastry shop based in Prague has a big name in the industry. Cakes and petits fours are prepared by a team of twenty people under the leadership of a pastry-chef Martin Polaneck\u00fd. More than two hundred wholesale customers regularly take Viktoria\u2019s amazing products from their small factory in Prague 3. 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