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Life in Poland

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Yippee

Life in Poland

Simple, yet fascinating:

https://youtu.be/lOUjz4u877g

Bread baking at ~ 20:00.

Yippee

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idaveindy

Here's that confection they are roasting on a spit in front of the fire:
https://culture.pl/en/work/polish-food-101-sekacz

Update: and the wiki entry:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%A0akotis

And the generic "spit cake":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spit_cake

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Yippee

about it. Thx for the 🖇️. I suppose this is not something I can make at home.

Yippee 

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rondayvous

For the first time from a street vendor. Quite tasty.

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Floydm

Sękacz is so good.

Oddly the one place I've been able to find it here is in the Japanese import section of our local grocery store. I guess there is a history there:

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2014/05/15/312177390/a-sponge-cakes-long-strange-trip-germany-to-japan-to-denver

 

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rondayvous

Could barely make out the Polish.

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Yippee

I watched the Chinese subtitles.😄😄😄

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albacore

At first look I thought they were cutting the loaves with a table saw!

Lance

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Yippee

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