Easter in Poland

In Poland the whole families gather together to celebrate Easter In Poland the whole families gather together to celebrate Easter. On Holy Saturday we prepare Easter baskets. There are eggs and there is a piece of bread, a piece of  sausage, salt, horse radish and a chocolate lamb. When  the baskets are ready we go with our families to the church where a priest blesses it with holy water. On Holy Sunday we eat Easter breakfast with our families. On Easter Monday we have"Śmigus Dyngus". On this day people throw water at each other. It’s for good luck.

Easter symbols

Eggs In Poland eggs are symbols of Easter, eternal life and immortality. People think that they are a source of life, regeneration and fertility. In our country we have two types of Easter eggs: ‘kraszanki’ and ‘pisanki’. Eggs are inseparable part of Polish table. Kraszanki Pisanki

Salt Bread Bread guarantees wealth and prosperity. Salt is a life-giving mineral. It has the power of repelling of the evil. It’s the symbol of purification, existence and truth. Bread Bread guarantees wealth and prosperity.

Sausages Horse radish Sausages ensure health and affluence. Horse radish is an old folk symbol of strength and physical brawn.

Mazurek cake Mazurek is a traditional cake of Polish cuisine. It is usually baked at Easter. Mazurek cake is sweet and delicious. It is a kind of pastry covered by the layer of icing. It is decorated with dried fruit, nuts, almonds, walnuts and roasted seeds.

‘Mazurek’ cake Ingredients for cake: 30 grams of flour 20 grams of butter 10 grams of powdered sugar(1 cup) 3 hard-boiled eggs 1 packet of vanilla sugar Dulce de leche: 1 cup of condensed milk delicacies Preparation: Cake: Chop all ingredients accurately and knead the dough. Put the dough to the refrigerator for 30 minutes. Then roll it out thin. Bake for about 25 minutes at a temperature of 180 - 220 ˚C. Dulce de leche: Pour some water into the pot and put a can of condensed milk into it. Cook sweetened condensed milk over low heat and knock the can for a few times. Spread the dulce de leche on the cake and sprinkle with nuts and raisins.

Easter lamb Ingredients: 40g of butter or margarine, 40g of sugar, 80g of cake flour, 40g of potato flour, 1 egg, 1/2 teaspoon of baking powder 1/2 pack of vanilla sugar, 1 teaspoon of rum or rum oil, pinch of salt powdered sugar Preparation: Butter or margarine mix with the sugar. Add the egg, salt and vanilla sugar still blending. After that put the cake flour mixed with baking powder and potato flour in the mixture. Stir until you get the smooth mass. Then put prepared dough to a greased form and bake at 180°C for 30-40 minutes. Cool the Easter lamb and sprinkle it with the powdered sugar.

Easter cake Ingredients: 6 eggs 30 decagrammes of sugar 26 decagrammes of flour 10 decagrammes of butter or margarine 3 decagrammes of vanilla sugar 1 table spoon of baking powder Preparation: Break the eggs and separate the egg whites from the yolks. Next beat the eggs and then add sugar. Add egg yolks and beat until you get smooth substance. Pour the flour, the vanilla sugar, the baking powder and mix to obtain uniform consistency. Prepare a baking pan and spread it with butter or margarine. Put the cake in the hot oven and bake for 45 minutes.

Cheesecake Ingredients for the dough: 200g of flour 2 egg yolks 1 teaspoon of baking powder vanilla flavor 100g of butter 70g of sugar Ingredients for cheese mass: 1000g of curd cheese 100g of butter 250g of caster sugar 4 large eggs (whites and yolks separately) 2 packages 0f cream or vanilla pudding 1 teaspoon of baking powder 1 vanilla sugar (you don't need if you have a vanilla pudding) nuts and dried fruit: raisins and candied orange zest All ingredients should be at a room temperature. Preparation: The dough: Knead all ingredients and put the dough into the fridge for 15-20 min. The curd mass: Put the butter and sugar into the bowl and mix until you get fluffy and light mass. Add the egg yolks, vanilla sugar and mix. Add milled cottage cheese gradually. Add baking powder, pudding and stir. Add orange zest and/or raisins. Beat the whites to get stiff mass, add it to the curd and stir gently. Roll the dough out and put it in the bottom of the springform pan. Pour the cheese mass. Bake in a springform pan for 45-50 minutes at 180 ° C.

„Żurek” soup Ingredients: one white sausage sourdough rye flour three tablespoons of cream (30% or 36%) salt and pepper hard boiled egg one onion marjoram 1 clove of garlic parsley soup vegetables without cabbage Preparation: Put soup vegetables, parsley, one onion, one clove of garlic, 1 and 1/2 teaspoon of salt, a few peppercorns, 2 bay leaves, 5 grains of allspice to a large pot. Pour 2 litres of cold water and boil. Reduce heat, cover and cook for about 30 minutes. Then add sausage and cook for 25 minutes. Let it stand for 10 minutes, then strain through a sieve into a clean pot. Add marjoram and ground pepper. Add sourdough rye flour (mix before use). Boil on low heat for two minutes. Serve with sausage, hard boiled egg and marjoram.

Roast ham Ingredients: 2 kg of ham pepper marjoram 2.5 litre of cold water 250 g of pickle salt some grains of pepper some grains of all-spice bay leaves garlic Preparation: Mix water , pickle salt, grains of pepper, grains of all-spice and bay leaves . Put the ham into the marinade for four days . Leave it in a cold place. After four days take it out of marinade. Wash it and then sprinkle with pepper and marjoram. Put the ham into the baking sleeve and roast for about two hours at temperature of 200°C. After two hours our ham is ready to serve.

Stuffed eggs Ingredients: 4 boiled eggs 1 pickle 1 spoon of mayo 1  smoked herring filet dill pepper and salt Preparation: Cut eggs on halfs. Chop eggs yolks and add mayo. Cut smoked herring filet and pickle. Mix eggs yolks and mayo with herring filet and pickle. Put stuffing into half eggs. Add salt and pepper

Horse radish Ingredients: 2 glasses of grated horse-radish ½ l of sour cream 5 eggs 5 spoons of vinegar 2 spoons of salt 2 spoons of sugar Preparation: Put the grated horse radish into the pot and heat it up. Stir all the time because it can't burn. Mix sour cream with eggs and pour this mixture to the pot. Add vinegar, salt and sugar and heat it up. Take it out of the fire when the sauce is ready.

Happy Easter