Polish Cooking – Alina Fedak, Mirosław Reszczyk, Małgorzata Walczak, et al.

Description: Polish cuisine is not a single, unchanging notion. The first Polish cookbook was written as far back as 1682. Western ways of cooking were already familiar to kitchens of Polish nobles. For centuries, Polish cuisine had absorbed and adapted French, Italian, Lithuanian and Jewish dishes and a number of foreign fruits and vegetables brought to Poland by Queen Bona were widely accepted and incorporated – competing with the native staples of cabbages, apples and pears.
This rare cookbook, published in the historic city of Kraków, features almost 70 recipes for starters, mains, desserts, and soups. These include such classics as krupniak (barley soup), pork cutlets with cabbage, and the famous makowiec (poppy seed cake).
Since this book was produced for the U.S. market, the text is in American English and all recipes use American cup and Imperial measurements.

Glazed pictorial boards; front is in excellent condition; rear has very minor wear. Spine bumped and lightly creased at tail; head is straight. Dent near tail of spine. Corners are straight. Pages have some minor water damage (hasn't resulted in discolouration) along the top. This damage becomes more pronounced from p.129 onwards; pp.142-143 (for notes) have further damage where they became stuck together. Otherwise all pages are tightly bound and in very good, unmarked condition.

Measures 26 cm × 21 cm (10.4″ × 8.4″). 4to. 143 pp.

Price: £15.00