Similarly as in other Brkinian villages:
Breakfast: white coffee and bread, gruel, homemade plum marmalade...
Lunch: Potatoes and polenta used to be the main dishes. It is known that potatoes grown in the Brkinian soil have an exquisite taste.
Stews: beans and pasta stew, sauerkraut stew (“jota”), kale stew, barley stew
Other dishes: potatoes and sauerkraut, potato dumplings with plums, cooked dumplings, oven-baked potatoes, corn polenta, potato polenta…
Pig slaughtering festivity: sausages, liver sausages, sausages with pork skin (“krodige”), dry soup (made of dried pork), black pudding (“mulci”)
HOLIDAYS
On holidays and name days, the villagers prepared rolled dumplings (“štruklji”) filled with grated bread and eggs as well as baked the traditional potica walnut cake. Rolled dumplings were also served at the end of a big day of work (e.g. hay harvesting).
Opasilo: superior lunch: roasted potatoes, soup with home-made noodles, occasionally beef, potica walnut cake and prosciutto
Easter: “pinca” cake, cooked prosciutto, “žuca” pork brawn, Easter eggs coloured with onion leaves…
Carnival: deep-fried sweet dough balls (“fritule”), sauerkraut, pig’s head…
Christmas Eve (“vigilja”): sweet cabbage salad and shredded baked dough (“mlinci”).
It should be noted that superior food was usually sold or prepared during big days of work (hay harvesting...).
DRINKS
water, apple cider,
spirits: the famous plum brandy, fruit brandy, also gin
Today, various liqueurs made of plum brandy.