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In the late
1890's,sixteen year old Albina Kormornik arrived in Pueblo
Colorado from her native city of Bratislava, in today's Slovak Republic. With
her she brought a heritage of family recipes. One special recipe was baked
during the holidays as a gift of love for family and friends. It is called
Potica (pronounced
Po-tee-sa, and also called Kolachi, Povitica, or
Nutbread). Potica is thinly rolled gourmet
sweet bread dough with a moist walnut filing.The old
world taste can best be described as soft and
rich--so rich and delicious
that it is easy to understand why this fine food recipe has endured for hundreds
of years.
Just as Albina
learned the baking of Potica from her mother, she in turn
passed these skills on to her daughter Emily. In 1962, at the
urging of family and friends, Emily Rozbroil Mauro began
selling
Potica. Ninety loaves were sold. It soon became tradition to
buy Potica from Emily Mauro as part of the
holiday festivities. Mrs. Mauro's Company was started in 1986
with sales of over 4500 loaves. Today Mrs. Mauro's Potica is
enjoyed throughout the world with thousands of loaves sold since that humble
beginning in 1962. Customers include Fortune Five Hundred
company's who give the delicious sweet bread to their valued
customers and dealers as Holiday Season Gifts. Mrs. Mauro's
maintains a mailing list of thousands of satisfied customer's.
Potica is a favorite among people of Central and
Eastern Europe.
Distributor and Dealer Inquirey's welcome.
The 1997 Holiday Season
would bring an end to a long love affair of Emily Mauro and
her Potica Company. She insisted on quality and would use only
rich creamery butter instead of vegetable oil, California
light walnuts versus less costly dark walnuts are just some items that
Emily Mauro always maintained. Her family carries on the
tradition and quality control she started 36
years ago. Emily Mauro was 85 at the time of her death.
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