Polish Breads Recipes

"This is a fabulous bread I make often. It is easy even for beginners, I think! Rye bread became a staple in eastern European countries because it grows well in cool climates"

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Ingredients: dry milk, instant coffee granules...

"This recipe for Polish chałka is a braided egg bread, raisins optional. Akin to Bohemian-Czech hoska, Jewish challah and French brioche, chalka is served year-round, but especially during the holidays. If you have any leftover chalka, it makes delicious French toast or bread pudding with orange sauce or poppyseeds. Courtesy of Barbara Rolek"

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Ingredients: eggs, golden raisins...

"For the uninitiated, a Babka is a kind of swirled coffee cake - a sweet yeast dough is rolled out very thin, sprinkled with filling, rolled up and twisted, sprinkled with streusel and baked. The filling for this babka was submitted by someone named Lilia on allrecipes.com - it is the best chocolate babka filling in my experience. I use my favorite..."

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Ingredients: confectioners' sugar, eggs...

"Placek (plah-sek) in Polish just means cake, but placek around back home (and probably other cities with a high Polish population) refers to a sweet yeast bread topped with sugary crumble, with golden raisins served on Easter. You hardly see placek, which is a shame! This bread can also be wrapped well and frozen, then taken out as necessary for..."

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Ingredients: dry yeast, eggs...

"From Susan Wiggs' book Winter Lodge: Pine Box Traditions. "It's a Polish wedding tradition to give a new bride a supply a starter for sourdough rye bread. I suspect it's a combination of tradition and desperation on the part of the bride. It just doesn't seem fair to add the pressure of making a good bread right out of the gate to everything..."

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Ingredients: warm water, onions, rye flour...

"It has a hearty flavor without being overly heavy or sour. I experimented with the rye & whole wheat/gluten balance to create a loaf that would rise a reasonable amount, and be appealing to my children. All three of my children love this one, and come back asking for more."

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Ingredients: gluten flour, flax seeds...

"This one was handed down for generations and always receives top marks. The dark color of the bread surprises many and comes from the cinnamon. It is a hearty bread reminicent of the Old Country in Poland from which it originates. Enjoy."

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Ingredients: cinnamon, eggs, raisins...

"old recipe from bulah miller via sally grosserode there is another recipe on zaar that has more background that is simalar but this has a little different twist old recipes always use i 1 package yeast i would use 2 .there is a different glaze with these no amount was given so im guessing on yeild"

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Ingredients: cornstarch, cream, egg yolks...

"Found this gem in The New York Times - I plan to make them this week. Oh, my DF, a lovely woman of Polish descent who has kept her Brooklyn accent after being gone so many years, will be soooo surprised! The article noted - Like the bialy, a form of pletzel from Bialystok, her tzibele pletzel (onion pletzel) is studded with onions and poppy seeds,..."

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Ingredients: eggs, kosher salt, onions...

"A delicious Polish desert bread. We used to always get it at easter but great any time, toasted up and slathered in REAL Butter."

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Ingredients: eggs, lemon peel, orange peel...

"I got this recipe from food network and it tastes amazing it even has an optional brown sugar glaze"

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Ingredients: crumb topping, eggs...