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.

Presentation made by students of Primary School Number 2 in Leżajsk, Poland. 2012