she used potato for the dough which would give it more moisture, I was saying the other type of dough would become hard or chewy.. making it with the potato looked really good..
it also still looked more like a bread type. but looked really good. :)
The baked pierogi (with yeast ) is basically like a British Pasty.
We don't tend to bake our pierogi when first cooked (always boiled from raw) but they are nice to reheat in the oven. That's how I often do mine (pierogi don't reheat that well in a microwave, imo) - that's how my mum often reheats them, and so do I.
Pierogi is a Polish word, therefore pierogies made in Poland or by the Poles would naturally originate from Poland. All other types of dumplings made by other countries would therefore originate there. No brainer!
I've had baked pierogi many times in Poland in traditional restaurants, just with a different dough which is more similar to pizza dough. You can not bake pierogi which have a dough for boiling.
Both my Grandmother's where from Poland and came here due to Germany in the Second World War (which now have been gone for sometime) My mothers mother made the BEST Pierogi's the ONLY way you should...with Kapusta inside ans then butter both sides and fry it until golden brown...Extremely Delicious!!!!
I have a linguistics piece that may be able to provide a possible origin of pieroghies. Email me and I will share with you the lengthy piece. Blessings, Tom Gilbert thomasgilbert2052@yahoo
Just was in a supposed "Polish" bakery not far from where we live and saw "pirozhki" instead of the proper spelling:-) The owner is a Pole, yet he didn't seem either to notice or care. If he's that careless about his signage, how circumspect could he possibly be about his baking?LOL
Imagine an American eatery in Poland, featuring "hat duggi"!
" Pirozhki (Russian: пирожки, plural form of pirozhok, literally a "small pie"), also transliterated as piroshki (singular piroshok) or pyrizhky (Ukrainian: пиріжки), is a generic word for individual-sized baked or fried buns stuffed with a variety of fillings. "
" Pirozhki are not to be confused with the pierogi of Poland and Eastern Europe "
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirozhki
a supposed "Polish" bakery
Pierogi are sold in bakeries in the US? I know they have sweet as well as savoury fillings, but I've never seen them in a bakery in Poland. They are usually boiled and sometimes fried, but I didn't know they were baked.
Ya see that, Chem:-) The bloke didn't even know what he was selling (then again, maybe he did and was just being a wise acreLOL), 'cuz when I even asked him (in Polish) whether or not there was a difference between "pierogi" and "pirozhki", he merely shook his head and replied "Tak samo!"
I've heard some rumours of the pierogi's being made in Poland before WWII. Then when the war was over every country in Europe got new borders, and so Ukraine got some from Poland and I some websites and people say that it was made in the part of Poland that Ukraine took. Making Ukraine get a lot of credit, because pierogi's weren't big around the world at the time.
I've heard some rumours of the pierogi's being made in Poland before WWII.
They've been made in this part of the world for much longer than that. Ukrainians know them as varenyky, and it's been part of the cuisine for centuries. The origins are completely unclear, however.
They and similar items are made in one form or another across a huge part of Eastern Europe, Central and Eastern Asia and the Middle East and have been for a very long time. The origins are probably in the east, either Tatars or Chinese.
