It is a presentation prepared by the pupils of Szkoła Podstawowa nr 2 w Leżajsku (Leżajsk Primary School No. 2, Poland) which refers to the Polish culinary traditions connected with Christmas Eve, Shrove Thursday and Easter.

2.  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.

3.  A beet soup served with mushroom – filled
miniature dumplings called uszka.

4.  They are stuffed with a sauerkraut and
mushroom filling.

5.  Fried fish.

6.  A spice cake.

7.  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.

8.  They are doughnuts with fruit filling.

9.  Another popular sweet treat.

10.  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.

11.  They are egg shells stuffed with chopped and
seasoned hard – boiled eggs.

12.  A sour rye soup with potato, sausage or an egg,
sometimes served in a bread loaf.

13.  Baked meat mixture.

14.  It is a fat cheesecake.

15.  A cake baked in a special baking tin.