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Siemieniotka


polishmeknob  5 | 154
22 Jul 2010   #1
What can people tell me about siemieniotka? Anyone had it? Know how it's made?
pgtx  29 | 3094
22 Jul 2010   #2
it's a silesian soup made of hemp seed, one of main Christmas Eve meals....
NorthMancPolak  4 | 642
22 Jul 2010   #3
This reply sounds almost identical to the Wikipedia entry :D
pgtx  29 | 3094
23 Jul 2010   #4
no way!!!!

;)
OP polishmeknob  5 | 154
23 Jul 2010   #5
Cool beans.

Anyone else have something more to add? Like: taste, texture, recipe?
OP polishmeknob  5 | 154
23 Jul 2010   #7
'K

So, I guess no one actually knows anything about it. Right?
NorthMancPolak  4 | 642
23 Jul 2010   #8
I've got a recipe if that's any help lol
dtaylor5632  18 | 1998
23 Jul 2010   #9
yes, me missus is making placki tomorrow, yum yum :)
pgtx  29 | 3094
23 Jul 2010   #10
So, I guess no one actually knows anything about it. Right?

they say it's a xmas dinner soup but i've never had it...

yes, me missus is making placki tomorrow, yum yum :)

you mean your mum... kinky...

;)
OP polishmeknob  5 | 154
24 Jul 2010   #11
I've got a recipe if that's any help

That helps.

yes, me missus is making placki tomorrow, yum yum :)

Cool story, bro.
polkamaniac  1 | 482
25 Jul 2010   #12
here is something I found on soup called "siemieniotka" which is prepared from hemp seed (siemie) with buckwheat groats (kasza gryczana). Hemp seeds used for this soup are hard to find anywhere outside Silesia and any other time except the Christmas season.
Jimmu  2 | 156
30 Aug 2011   #13
If you can't find hemp seeds, pot seeds will do. :->
My wife makes it each Christmas. She says it tastes horrible, but it wouldn't be Christmas without it. Her sons both love it so...

As my wife makes it it involves boiling the seeds, grinding them, boiling again, grinding again... repeat as many times as your patience allows.
At the last boiling add some onion, then when it's done salt and pepper to taste.
And she is Śląsk and only makes it at Christmas..

Oh, and throw away what's left of the seeds and the onions. Siemieniotka is the broth.
And my wife tells me I shouldn't say "grind" like meat I should say "hit it and beat it" like a husband
hmm
24 Dec 2022   #14
instead of grinding i know it the way that you pound the seeds.

-you boil the seeds and then take a ridicilously large pot and put a handful of seeds in it
- put a towel on the floor and put the pot on it. then take a wood hammer with a loooong handle >1m and start smashing the seeds till you see a white liquid coming out and the former black seeds turn into a smoosh of grey pulp.

- you take that and put it into a sieve and pour hot soup fond through it to extract the 'seed milk'
do the same with the next patch of boiled seeds.
-you can repeat that process for the whole lot if you are not tired of stomping.
-balance the soup flavor with either more soup fond or some cream.
-add boiled buckweed or if you dont have that rice to the soup. enjoy

it basicly has the similiar effect of making you more hungry while eating.
something like a campari-orange cocktail a s a starter.

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