Hello, I am trying to figure out the name of this breakfast type of bread I remember from my youth that my parents used to pick up from a Polish bakery.
It was a sweet type of bread, baked in a loaf style, with a real crusty shell, and had raisins in it (which I always picked out!). I believe it was called something like (phonetically):
plots-ick Platzik(?)
Does that sound like anything anyone has ever come across?
The bakery I'm was referring to was actually in Batavia, NY USA.
While the name doesn't sound anything like I recall the bread being called, that Chalka does look sort of like it. The loaf wasn't "knotted" like that but was done pretty much like it was baked in your basic loaf pan. It did have some kind of crumbly topping on it.
Does the Chalka have a yellowish tint to the bread itself? I distinctly recall the bread having a yellowish hue to it.
Thanks for all the help so far, I really appreciate it.
Using inkrakow's note about Placek as a search point I came across this reference to a recipe: polish babka (placek), which seems to say that placek is just another name for babka. Placek definitely sounds like what recall the bread being called so maybe what I remember really is a babka.
Looks like I will need to take a trip to the polish bakery in town and do some tasting research!
or maybe an oversized "bułka maślana" with raisins. I don't think it's babka, as it is much more crumbly than drożdżówka, which is quite elastic. Also babka that I know doesn't feature the crumbly and sweet "kruszonka" on top.
In Buffalo it was also called 'Platzik'? I've been searching for recipies or bakeries in my area. there were raisins on the inside and a crumbly top--which was not quite like struedel
I'm from the Buffalo area--we called it placek (sp?) too. My mom and grandma used to make it and we all just called it coffee cake. It was in the Easter basket but my mom died two years ago and no one knows how to make it. Makes me want to go to the Broadway market and get some.
You should PM Sledz.....there's a store in Chicago that has every type of Polish bread there is....he sent me a few loaves (he's Da Man:)....anyway, it's a Polish grocery store and chances are, whatever you are looking for, he will be able to find it!
my babci used to make this wonderful bread with goklden raisins and butter crumb topping, I need the recipe please because I want to make it but have no recipe.
My relatives are all deceased and I don't know where to get it from so I can make it like "BABCI" used to make
my grandmother and mother have made this bread for years, they call it polish bulka bread. the crusty sugary part on top is my favorite. this bread is just pure heaven to eat.
Have you found this Polish Coffee Cake (bread) yet? I am from Buffalo also and I know exactly what you mean and I have a fantastic recipe. It make 4 loaves and is sooooooooooo yummy.
susan's crumb kuchen coffee cake (placek) My wife Susan's crumb kuchen coffee cake recipe, a variation on a classic yeast-based Polish placek, from her home neighborhood in Buffalo, New York. In Susan's family kuchen is a traditional Easter morning treat, with butter from the Malczewski market butter lamb, and sautéed smoked and fresh kielbasa sausages with horseradish and Weber's mustard.
I make a ton of these. I call them Polish Coffee Cake. Usually with Thomson Seedless Raisins and at the holidays I also make them without raisins too. Is this what they look like?
Thanks for posting the recipe. My husband's great aunt (who lives in the Buffalo area & is of polish descent) makes a "platzik" for us everytime we visit Buffalo or someone comes down to visit us. I'm feeling shy about asking her for the recipe, because I thought she might feel like it's not as special for her to make us the bread if I could just do it myself.
