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, […]
Sweet Things
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 Amish Whoopie Pies
Sometimes a taste, sound, scent, or memory tightly ties two places or things together in your life in a way you’d least expect. Such is […]
Pennsylvania Dutch Milk Pie
Milk Pies are a classic example of the “waste not, want not” frugality of life in many old Pennsylvania Dutch and Coal Region homes. This […]
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 […]
Brown Stone Front Cake
One of the most used, spotted, and worn recipe cards in my collection is in my Mom’s handwriting and it is for “”Brown Stone Front […]