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Welcome, everyone. I am Sándor Szabó from Nyíregyháza, Hungary. We are here in VÉP, Hungary, for an international Yoga in Daily Life seminar. Today, I will show you how to make a very simple, old, traditional Hungarian food called prósa. It is a simple dish you can prepare within an hour using basic ingredients. Let's look at the ingredients: Yogurt: three boxes, approximately 1.5 liters. Flour: one cup of white flour and one cup of brown wheat flour, approximately half a liter total. First, we mix the flours together. I start with the brown flour. This mixing takes about five minutes. The longest part is the baking, which takes 40 minutes at 200 degrees Celsius. This food, called prósa, was traditionally a simple farmer's food in the villages. I grew up in the Somogy area in southwest Hungary, where this is a common sweet dish. If the yogurt is too thin, add a bit more flour. If it is too thick, use less. The consistency depends on your specific yogurt and flour, so you can adjust it to be thicker or thinner according to your preference. Next, take two tablespoons of olive oil and spread it on a baking pan. It is very important that the layer of the batter you pour in is no thicker than one centimeter; ideally between half and one centimeter. If you have a small pan, you may need to bake two batches. I mentioned this is a sweet dish, but we haven't added any sweetener yet. If you do not like sugar, you can skip it. Otherwise, you can use a maximum of two tablespoons of either white or brown sugar. I am using brown sugar. I sprinkle it on the surface rather than mixing it into the batter because sugar mixed in burns more easily. Another ingredient is plum jam without any additives—a thick, healthy, real Hungarian jam. We use about one tablespoon, placing small amounts here and there. This plum jam contains a lot of iron and is delicious. You can use other jams, but plum is best. We use about 100 milliliters. Now, the batter is ready for the oven. This baking period is the longest step. We bake it at 200 degrees Celsius for 30 to 40 minutes, depending on your oven, until it becomes a bit brownish. By mistake, I baked one pan of prósa earlier, so I can show you the finished result. This is the prósa. You can cut it up and serve it to everyone—children and adults alike. They will love it very much. Thank you. Enjoy your meal, and try making prósa. It is very simple. This is one of the simplest sweet foods from around the world.