Posts by trocergian

trocergian

5 Feb 2008

Food / Breakfast style bread [32]

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?

Thanks for any leads!

trocergian

7 Feb 2008

Food / Breakfast style bread [32]

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.

trocergian

7 Feb 2008

Food / Breakfast style bread [32]

Well, now I'm just getting more confused.

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!