This document describes some of the traditional foods eaten during Christmas and Easter celebrations in Poland. For Christmas Eve supper, there should be twelve dishes including beet soup with mushroom dumplings, fried fish, spice cake, and other dishes. Before Lent, people eat lots of doughnuts and other sweets on Shrove Thursday. For Easter, eggs are painted and then taken to church along with meat, bread, and salt in a basket to share on Easter Sunday.

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.