Mazurland Polish Cooking
A number of
years ago, I placed an article about Wigilia, or Polish Christmas Eve,
that had appeared in my local newspaper (The Centre Daily Times) onto
my web site. Since then,
the
page has gotten thousands of visits, and I receive email every year
asking for more recipes and advice on Polish cooking. I'm certainly not
an expert on Polish traditions or cooking, being of the third
generation (fourth on my father's side). I usually have to refer the
email correspondent to a good cookbook. However, my maternal
grandmother Mary Odziemiec knew a good deal about Polish cooking (among
many other things). I have a small collection of her recipes, some of
which appeared in the (now defunct) Buffalo Courier-Express in the
mid-1970s. Some of the old articles are only partly preserved.
This
page links to the Centre Daily Times story on Wigilia,
to the Courier-Express "Grandma O" recipes, and to a couple of very
good Polish
cookbooks.
If I can
find the missing parts of the "Grandma O" articles (or more articles),
I'll post them. Some of the files are scans in .JPG format.
You can use the zoom tool in your browser to get a closer look
at the articles in these files.
- "A
Festive Wigilia" - Centre Daily Times, December 1997.
- Mazur/Odziemiec Wigilia, part
1 - Buffalo Courier Express, December 23, 1974
- Mazur/Odziemiec Wigilia, part
2 - Buffalo Courier Express, December 23, 1974
- Grandma O's Placek Recipe - Buffalo
Courier Express, mid-1970s
- Mrs
Witt's "Duckless" Duck Soup with reprint of
above placek recipe -
Buffalo Courier Express, May 25, 1975 (partial article
- full recipes)
- Grandma O's Duck Soup
(Czarnina/Czernina) - Buffalo Courier Express, mid-1970s (article only
- recipes missing - will post when found)
- Polish
Heritage Cookery by Robert and Maria Strybel.
- Polish
Holiday Cookery by Robert Strybel.
- Mazurland
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