Polish colonies

A problem of immigrants is common nowadays. Yesterday I read an article which presented why refugees don't choose Poland as theirs asylum. Of course it's because of the poverty of Poland, but also there are two main reasons of this decision: in this country there is only one religion; and Poland don't have any colonies. It's different for, i.e. France, whose government must grant full French citizenship for every habitant of old French colony.

That reminded me of Polish colonies (some time ago I've been interested in this issue), so I've decided to write something about it in this post.

Manifestation in Poznań, Święty Marcin Street, 1938

Of course, Poland doesn't have any colonies. However, it doen't mean that we didn't want them...

First I'd like to say something about the history. Poles manifested to have them during the interwar period, but then the IIww started, so they had to abandon this idea.

One of the manifestation:

The aspect of Polish colonies was described very well in a book "Aspiracje kolonialne w polityce zagranicznej Polski" by Zbigniew Bujkiewicz.

Sweets from Poznań!

Poznań is a place where you can choose between lots of sweets.
As you can see in one of the article:

I want to present you the most popular sweets from Poznań:

Rogal Świętomarciński

Absolutely the most popular baking from Poznań. It tastes the best when you eat it in 11 November, participating in St. Martin's Parade, on Święty Marcin Street ;)

Szneka z glancem

In the rest of Poland it's just "drożdżówka". The name came from Germany, the word "Schnecke" - a nail. In the top of it there is icing from caster sugar.


Faworki

It is very often baked by my grandmother ;) But she makes it using yeasts - this recipe was made up the first. Now you shouldn't use it. The name "faworki" came from bakery Fawor, because its workers did faworki accidentally. Nowadays they do them on purpose :P


Plyndze

In the other part of Poland you can hear "placki ziemniaczane", but it isn't the same. "Placki" is the general name of this dish from potatos ("pyry":D), but in Poznań it is eaten in a sweet version, with sugar or jam. I was quite suprised when I ordered it being at the seaside and getting it with salt and onion^^' (After all, it wasn't as bad as I supposed it to be ;). So "plyndze" are only with sweet additives, "placki" with sweet or salty additives.


Amerykany

It's similar to szneka, because there is also an icing on it. I was very suprised when I learnt that it is made only in Poznań... They are delicious, I love them ;)


Krówki

At last but not least! ;)
A small sweet which came popular in the whole Poland. You can see two version: "ciągutki" or "kruche". Krówki make a sensation in Japan and the rest of the world :D


I hope you'll have an opportunity to taste some sweets from Poznań! ;)