Traditional Polish foods include herring rolled in mustard and onions, galareta which is a savory jelly made from pork and vegetables, żurek soup made with rye flour starter, sausage, horseradish and eggs, pickled cucumber soup with cucumbers, bouillon, and dill, bigos stew with cabbage, sausage, pork and mushrooms, minced pork cutlets breaded and fried, pancakes filled with jam or cheese, and sernik cheese cake made with cottage cheese on a shortcrust pastry base.

1. Traditional Polish Food

2. Herring - Śledź Ingredients: Few fillets of herring Some oil Some mustard 3 or 4 bay leaves Onion Preparation: Speard the mustard on the filet and roll up. Chop onion. Then put everything into a jar and pour some oil. Add a few bay leaves.

3. Galareta Ingredients : 4 porkshanks 1 or 2 carrots 1 parsley 1 big celery 2 cloves of garlic 2 bay leaves Some pimento Salt and pepper Preparation : Peel and chop vegetables. Boil them with porkshanks in a big pot of water for 3 hours. Add a pinch of pepper, salt and bay leaves. Cool it down and pour into small bowls.

4. Żurek Ingredients : 4 glasses of bouillon ” zakwas” 500 g sausage 1 spoon of flour 0.5 glass of cream Teaspoon of horseradish 3 boiled eggs 1 lorbeerblatt 1 or 2 cloves of garlic Teaspoon of marjoram Salt and pepper The base for zurek ("zakwas"): 3 cups of rye flour, small piece of crust from rye bread, 2 minced cloves of garlic, 2 cups of warm water. Put ingredients in a jar, mix them together, cover the jar with a piece of clean cloth, let the jar stay in a warm place for 4-5 days. Take off the bread crust and garlic before using.

5. Żurek Preparation : Add sausages and bay leaves to the boiling bouillon and heat up for 15 minutes. Take off the sausage and pour some ”zakwas”. Mix cream with flour and put into the soup. Add horseradish, marjoram, salt, pepper and chopped sausage. Serve with eggs.

6. Pickled Cucumbers Soup - Ogórkowa Ingredients: 5 glasses of bouillon 2 pickled cucumbers 1 spoon of lard 0.5 glasses of cucumber juice 2 seeds of pimento 1 big clove of garlic 1 glass of cream Shredded dill

7. Ogórkowa Preparation: Boil bouillon and cook it under a cover on small heat. Peel and grate cucumbers. Add cucumber juice to the bouillon. Fry cucumber on a lard, add some flour and heat up it for 3 to 5 minutes. Then add the fried cucumber to the bouillon and boil it on smaller heat for 2 minutes. Take it away from the heat, add cream, some pimento and some dill. Serve the soup with potatoes.

8. Bigos Ingredients : 2 kg cabbage 0.5 kg sausage 0.5 kg pork 30 g dry mushrooms 2 onions Herbs and bay leaves, salt and pepper Preparation : Chop cabbage and put it into a pot, add some water, herbs and a few bay leaves. Cut sausages, pork, mushrooms and onions and fry it together. Then put it into the pot with chopped cabbage and boil. Finally add some salt and peper. Boil slowly for 4 hours.

9. Kotlet mielony Ingredients : 0.5 minced pork 1 roll 1 glass of milk 1 egg 1 clove of garlic Some crumbs Some lard Salt Pepper

10. Kotlet mielony Preparation : Pour milk into a bowl and add a roll. Leave for half an hour. Chop garlic. Put the meet into another bowl, add some salt, pepper, garlic and one egg. Drain off the roll and mix it together with the meet and other ingredients. Form steaks and coat them with crumbs. Melt lard in a frying pan then fry steaks for a few minutes.

11. Pancakes Ingredients : 1 cup of flour 0.5 teaspoon of salt 1 large egg, 2 tablespoons of vegetable oil Milk Some applejam or cottage cheese with currants Preparation : Mix all ingredients together. Pour some of the mixture on a frying pan. Fry for a few minutes changing sides. Fill with jam or cottage cheese and roll.

12. Sernik Short pastry Ingredients: 250 g flour 120 g butter 100 g pouder sugar 1 or 2 yolks Cheese mass Ingredients: 1 kg cottage cheese 6-7 eggs 80 g butter 250 g sugar 1 packet of vanille sugar 20-40 g flour

13. Sernik Preparation : Make short pastry. Roll and bake it. Mix butter, yolks and a part of sugar together. Then add some vanilla sugar. Beat eggs, finally add a rest of sugar. Next add flour and mix it. Put cheese mass on the short pastry and bake it about 45 – 60 minutes.