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What exactly is Polish Bread?


modafinil - | 419
15 Jan 2012 #61
It is probably sacrilegious but Polish bread makes good toast.

Homemade Polish rye bread would easily become contaminated with ergot which is now synthesized as LSD-25 giving the Polish varieties of religious experience.
gumishu 13 | 6,134
15 Jan 2012 #62
ergot requires a intermediary plant before it can infest rye and now the plant is mostly missing from the Polish landscape (it's called berberys in Polish IIRC)

OK - I was wrong - ergot has nothing to do with 'berberys' (barberry) - it's completely different fungus that does (stem rust)
pawian 221 | 23,973
15 May 2021 #63
. Bought bread is good enough.

I hear more and more stories about baking one`s own bread. One day I must try it though I am not so enthusiastic about it, I must say. This opinion about good bread in shops still holds true.
mafketis 36 | 10,687
15 May 2021 #64
good bread in shops still holds true

A few months ago I went to a bakery close to where I live (small chain with four or five stores in one city and seemingly no webpage(!)) and pretty much stopped buying break anywhere else... about ten times better than what is found in grocery stores.

Favorites include 'bydgoski'* (made from żyto czesane... what's that?) and szwajcarski (dark with raisins) and roasted potato bread and 'emilki' (very close to American 'dinner rolls' which I'd been jonesing for before I went there the first time)

Their sweet things are also good, sometimes very good but their breads are really amazing.

*it looks nothing like what you get in google for 'chleb bydgoski'... it's round and dark but not dense..
pawian 221 | 23,973
15 May 2021 #65
(dark with raisins)

Yes, those stuffings add new quality to bread. I like wholemeal with sunflower or pumpkin seeds. Also, plum bread is interesting.

But the best is craft bread which consists mostly of various seeds - it is so wonderfully al dente.



mafketis 36 | 10,687
15 May 2021 #66
craft bread which consists mostly of various seeds

Yikes! I don't care much for any seed besides sesame seeds on baked goods....
pawian 221 | 23,973
15 May 2021 #67
sesame seeds

Not bad, I like them in sesame biscuits. But bread must offer some stronger resistance to my teeth so I need more and bigger seeds.


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