Eniko Jordan uses Hungarian recipes from her family every day but incorporates other styles of cuisine in her cooking—“unlike my mother, who was a good cook, but cooked Hungarian entirely.”

The Jordans, Eniko and her husband Ed, moved to Mathews from Idaho last spring when Ed accepted the pastorate of Gwynn’s Island Baptist Church. Before arriving in Mathews, as faithful workers for the church, Eniko and Ed had spent many years in programs that brought about extensive traveling. One such trip took them in 1991 to Hungary, “once the Iron Curtain was lifted.”

They settled in a little town called Szeged. While there, under a church development program through which they helped the Baptist Church bring itself up to date with the world, Eniko had the pleasure of sharing her American cooking knowledge while continuing her Hungarian heritage methods.

In that time, “the people of Hungary did a lot of outdoor cooking. It was usually over a fire pit i...