Mazurek, also known as mazurka, is a flat Polish cake made with a shortbread style dough and topped with any combination of almond paste, preserves, […]
Eastern European
Lithuanian Kugelis (Potato Pudding)
Large numbers of Lithuanians first came to the United States in 1867-1868 after a famine in Lithuania, at that time a part of the Russian […]
Traditional Ukrainian Babka
Babka is a sweet, leavened bread created from a rich dough made for Easter Sunday throughout Slavic cuisines including Ukrainian and Polish. Traditionally the practice of […]
Traditional Paczki
Paczki (PAWNCH-kee or POONCH-kee) are deep-fried pieces of dough shaped into flattened spheres, fried, then filled. They bear a similarity to North American Bismarcks or […]
Bigos (Hunter’s Stew)
A national dish of Poland, bigos is a traditional one-pot meat-and-cabbage stew, often referred to as a “hunter’s stew” and usually made during the winter months or […]
Smalec (Polish Lard Spread)
Many of us here in the Coal Region well remember our grandparents or parents sitting down to enjoy a food from their childhood that we, […]