polish food on special days
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Polish food on special days
ChristmasShrove Thursday
Easter
Christmas This time of year we prepare special Christmas
food. We have Christmas supper on Christmas Eve which, as tradition says, should consist of twelve dishes. We start the supper when the first star appears in the sky.
Barszcz z uszkamiBorscht with dumplings
A beet soup served with mushroom – filled miniature dumplings called uszka.
Pierogi Dumplings
They are stuffed with a sauerkraut and mushroom filling.
KarpCarp
Fried fish.
PiernikGingerbread
A spice cake.
Shrove Thursday Before Lent (forty days before Easter) starts we
have a special day called Shrove Thursday. On this day people all over Poland eat lots of delicious sweets.
PączkiFilled doughnuts
They are doughnuts with fruit filling.
ChrustyPastry Twisters
Another popular sweet treat.
Easter In Poland we paint Easter eggs before Easter.
On Easter Saturday we put the eggs, some meat, some bread and some salt into a basket and take it to church. On Easter Sunday we share the eggs and have a special breakfast.
Jaja faszerowaneStuffed egg shells
They are egg shells stuffed with chopped and seasoned hard – boiled eggs.
Żurek
A sour rye soup with potato, sausage or an egg, sometimes served in a bread loaf.
PasztetPâté
Baked meat mixture.
SernikCheesecake
It is a fat cheesecake.
BabkaGrandmother’s sweet cake
A cake baked in a special baking tin.
The presentation was made by the students of Leżajsk Primary School No. 2, Poland.