Ski2
29 Jan 2011
Food / What exactly is Polish Bread? [90]
astacy: I would give a lot to get the answer to your question. The taste of still warm black bread from the stone oven of a pre war Polish farmhouse is absolutely unforgettable. I have seen dozens of recipes on the net, and the fact they all purport to produce black bread, makes their dissimilarities striking. I think that the intervening war, followed by a half century of a repressive regime, and shortages of virtually everything has allowed the recipe to die out from endless attempts at substitution or deletion of ingredients.
astacy: I would give a lot to get the answer to your question. The taste of still warm black bread from the stone oven of a pre war Polish farmhouse is absolutely unforgettable. I have seen dozens of recipes on the net, and the fact they all purport to produce black bread, makes their dissimilarities striking. I think that the intervening war, followed by a half century of a repressive regime, and shortages of virtually everything has allowed the recipe to die out from endless attempts at substitution or deletion of ingredients.