Polish recipes

Put a pint of red currants in the centre of a compote. Around them make a border of a pint of white currants, and around these arrange a border of red raspberries. Set the dish on the table. Take a pint of sweet cream, add to it three tablespoonfuls of powdered sugar; stir it up [...]

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Take one pound of  Roses (you can use rose flower or wild rose buds as its more practical and make sure of course you have not use chemicals on these roses while growing them); three pound of  Sugar, one pint of Rose  water or just a little more proportion of roses to sugar if you [...]

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Ingredients: 1 small cauliflower (or 1/2 a big one) 1 can of corn 5-8 slices of ham 1 fresh cucumber 2 tbs of yogurt 2 tbs of mayonnaise 1 tbs of olive oil 1 garlic clove black pepper salt 1. Boil the cauliflower for about 10 minutes till soft. Rinse it and let it cool. [...]

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What goes into the Pierogi dough To make a pierogi – experiment but here is a start. 5 cups flour 1/4 lb. butter (not margarine please, margarine is not good for you anyway) 1 cup sour cream 3/4 cup water 6 egg yolks (I think yolks are healthy, they have lecithin and selenium etc) 3 [...]

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Take the weight of the currants in sugar, pick out the seeds; take to a pound of sugar, half a pint of water, let it melt; then put in your currants and let them do very leisurely, skim them, and take them up, let the sirrup boil; then put them on again; and when they [...]

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Ingredients for Polish celery root and apple salad are celery root chopped up and apples chopped into small pieces.  Next add cream.  This is it. Its very easy and children love this. That is it. Its very easy to make.  I wish I could write more but this is a very simple salad. Celery is [...]

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This first  carrot salad is less traditional and I prefer my second recipe which is more a traditional Polish carrot salad recipe . Young spring carrots are excellent when served as a salad. Take six of them, wash, wipe them with a coarse towel, boil them for ten minutes, drain and cut into narrow strips. [...]

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Ingredients: 5 pickled herrings 1 oz of salmon 2 boiled potatoes 2 apples few chopped shallots 2 small pickled cucumbers 1/2 a cup of chopped parsley or chervil salt and pepper Salad dressing: 4 tbs of olive oil 1 tbs of mayonnaise 1 tbs of plain yogurt 1 tea-spoon of vinegar 1/2 a tea-spoon of [...]

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Ingredients: 6 veal chops (boneless) 1/2 a cup of fresh rosemary 1/2 a cup of white wine 4 tbs of sour cream frying oil salt and black pepper 1. Dry veal chops with paper towels to remove moisture. 2. Sprinkle them with salt and black pepper. 3. Preheat few table spoons of frying oil. 4. [...]

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Peel the apples and fill the space with currants. Sprinkle with sugar, cinnamon and grated lemon peel, and cover each apple with a rich pie-paste. Lay on a well-buttered pie-dish and let bake until done. Serve with wine sauce.

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