The Benedictine monastery of St. Margherita is a treasury of preserved tradition and still live practice. Making bagels and nuns’ pastry aims to preserve and develop specific historically rooted creative culinary skills originating from the Benedictine community. What makes our nuns’s mediaeval specials recognizable and outstanding, is the fact that they are high-quality products exclusively home-made in small batches.
Recognizable and outstanding, it is a product of the original quality, exclusively home-made in small batches. Koludraška štrika carries the sign “Croatian Island Product”.
Rafijoli are traditional Pag cookies prepared according to the old recipe. They are made of crisp pastry dough, triangular in shape, with walnut filling.
Kolacić is an aniseed-flavoured soft round bagel. It smells and tastes really good. Kolacić carries the signs “Croatian Island Product”.
Delicious traditional medieval sponge cake.
The authentic Abbess’ cake that has traditionally been prepared solely for the Abbess of the monastery, several times a year, on important dates. The aim is to preserve and develop specific, historically rooted creative culinary skills originating from the Benedictine community.
The art of making Pag baškotin has been preserved by the Benedictine nuns from the monastery of St. Margherita in Pag, who persisted from generation to generation in following their traditional recipe resulting in the original and specific taste. Owing to its fine taste and long storage life, baškotin has always been an essential part of celebrations and festive occasions in families, a convenient and nice present to the dear and respected ones, a tasty snack. The people of the town and island of Pag are very partial to baškotin made in the monastery of St. Margherita in Pag and appreciate it highly.