{"id":8548,"date":"2020-08-28T11:56:06","date_gmt":"2020-08-28T11:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/?p=8548"},"modified":"2020-08-28T11:56:06","modified_gmt":"2020-08-28T11:56:06","slug":"simple-and-delicious-polish-fruit-cake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/simple-and-delicious-polish-fruit-cake\/","title":{"rendered":"Simple and delicious Polish fruit cake"},"content":{"rendered":"

There is nothing more delicious than a cake with fresh fruit in the summer and fall months!<\/p>\n

Nothing better than slicing into this fresh, filled with seasonal ingredients cake! A summer cake that I remember from my childhood (dzieci\u0144stwo<\/strong>) with much delight is a simple yellow cake baked in a large, rectangular pan, topped with seasonal fruit, such as a blueberries (jagody<\/strong>), cherries (wi\u015bnie<\/strong>), or plums (\u015bliwki<\/strong>). I think that plums were my favorite fruit in it! Quick, easy, fluffy and juicy! Yum!<\/p>\n

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Plum cake. Image by S. Hermann & F. Richter from Pixabay<\/p><\/div>\n

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Image by S. Hermann & F. Richter from Pixabay<\/p><\/div>\n

Poland’s hot summer (gor\u0105ce lato<\/strong>) and cold winter (zimna zima<\/strong>) create a similar growing season to the American Midwest, and traditional Polish desserts frequently feature berries like currants (porzeczki<\/strong>), wild blueberries (jagody<\/strong>), and strawberries (truskawki<\/strong>) pulled from their lush forests and orchard fruits like plums (\u015bliwki<\/strong>), apples (jab\u0142ka<\/strong>) and apricots (morele<\/strong>) that ripen in abundance.The recipes (przepisy<\/strong>) are usually really simple! Few ingredients you would usually need are vanilla, eggs, sugar and fresh butter. The fruit makes the finished product super moist, a lovely contrast with the buttery crispness of the crust.<\/p>\n

Every day is a good day for cake! And especially for a fruit cake! Was it always like this?<\/p>\n

Over the course of centuries, Polish cuisine and its variety of desserts have kept on changing. The alterations were linked to different trends and the influence of other countries. Baroque-era desserts were laced with anise (any\u017c<\/strong>), saffron (szafran<\/strong>), cardamom (kardamon<\/strong>), turmeric (kurkuma<\/strong>), vanilla (wanilia<\/strong>), nutmeg (ga\u0142ka muszkato\u0142owa<\/strong>) and cloves (go\u017adziki<\/strong>) instead of sugar.<\/p>\n

The hits of those days were different cakes: sponge, French, almond, gingerbread, wheel cakes called ko\u0142acze<\/strong>, old-fashioned macaroons , fruit cakes and cream horns called ulipki z pian\u0105<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Image by Terry Appenzeller from Pixabay<\/p><\/div>\n

Desserts as we know them replaced their predecessors in the Enlightenment era, when French cuisine reached Poland and sugar gained popularity. Around the same time, tea (herbata<\/strong>) and coffee (kawa<\/strong>) first appeared on menus.<\/p>\n

The golden age of caf\u00e9s and pastry shops began in the 20th century and the inter-war period. Coffeeshop life flourished and the artistic and intellectual elite chose them as places of meeting and debate.<\/p>\n

Today we are witnessing a revival in Polish pastry-making. A lot of pastry shops are bringing old classics back to life…and one of them is definitely placek ze \u015bliwkami<\/strong>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\"\"

There is nothing more delicious than a cake with fresh fruit in the summer and fall months! Nothing better than slicing into this fresh, filled with seasonal ingredients cake! A summer cake that I remember from my childhood (dzieci\u0144stwo) with much delight is a simple yellow cake baked in a large, rectangular pan, topped with…<\/p>\n

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