Polish Plum Cake (Ciasto ze Śliwkami)

It’s the middle of fall, and we missed the short Italian prune plum season for the third year in a row.  These plums are fantastic for making homemade preserves and also for incorporating into desserts.  While we won’t have plum preserves again this year, we can still snack on those big red or black (purple?) […]

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Hussar-Style Beef in Mushroom Wine Sauce (Poland)

My daughter had an interesting history project learning about the Polish hussars.  They were an elite regimen in the Polish cavalry in the Crown Kingdom of Poland between the 16th and 18th centuries.  It was actually exiled Hungarians who introduced hussar horsemen to the Polish military.  At first, the regiments were small and only made up […]

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Sugar Cookies in Poland

I’m calling these cookies “Polish” not because they are a traditionally Polish, but instead because I made them while visiting Poland over Christmas.  While I could have sworn that I repeated exactly what I would have done had I made them in my own kitchen in America–aside from the colored sugar crystals which were nonexistent […]

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