Rudarska Greblica is a food product made from hand-rolled thin pastry made of wheat flour, lard and/or margarine, sunflower oil, milk, eggs, butter, sour cream, salt, fresh yeast, sugar and water, and filled with cottage cheese.
It is produced in Rude, Samobor and nearby villages in Zagreb County -- Cerje Samoborsko, Braslovje, Kotari, Manja Vas, Bukovje Podvrško and Prekrižje Plješivičko.
According to the oral tradition of inhabitants of this area, Rudarska Greblica was made by miners' women already in the first half of the 16th century.
It was named after a traditional tool called 'greblica', which was used to tend a fire in the bread oven in a miner's home, since the shape of the pastry was similar to that tool.
The Ministry recalled that Croatia now has 29 agricultural and food products registered in the EU with a protected designation of origin or protected geographical indication.