Today is Fat Thursday in Poland, Tlusty Czwartek. The tradition is to eat pączki, a pastry that resembles a glazed jelly doughnut. My friend Klaudia told me that the most authentic filling is a rose jam. The ones I bought have a strawberry preserve. (I will have to keep sampling!)
This conversation led to Klaudia telling me that Poles also put the rose jam in hot tea. I checked two supermarkets on the way home looking for rose jam but came back empty handed. Never mind; I'll try hot tea with one of the jams we have in the fridge.
I chose a mixed fruit jam - apple, plum, and cinnamon. I put a heaping teaspoon full in a cup of black tea and it was delicious, a much more fruity flavor than fruit flavored teas. I'm going to have to try this with iced tea this summer too.
7 comments:
I hope you'll let us know if you ever get rose jam. I'm really curious to know what that tastes like! Sounds kind of neat.
It is very mild, hard to describe. Easy to find it used with Polish pastries
hey a fruit tea with jam sounds such an interesting idea! cant wait to try it..thanks for sharing the idea:)
I've tried this and it's really great. Hope to find more from you. Thanks for sharing.
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Looks Amazing!
Hi Lois, happy accident I found your blog. I have a good news for you. You can bay a rose jam (konfitura) in Piotr i Pawel supermarket (Poznan, Murawa Str.). The best is jam made from roses flowers.
Amazing how simple it can be to communicate with people and have them understand a certain topic, you made my day.
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