Potatoes, onions and a fat piece of pork: these humble ingredients – so essential to Polish peasant cuisine – form the base for one of Eastern Poland’s best-known dishes: babka ziemniaczana or potato ...

This Challah Poppy Seed Babka with Bourbon Sugar Syrup is a not-too-sweet Purim dessert and can also be made without alcohol.

and cakes such as babka and mazurek being some of them – there’s no canonical list of recipes, and the choice of foods seems more diverse and less obvious then on Christmas. Let’s take a look at some ...

According to Jewish food historian Gil Marks, kokosh cake, like Polish babka, wasn’t originally made with chocolate; both chocolate and cocoa were expensive ingredients in shtetl times.

These people buy their raisin-filled babka at Jaslowiczanka, a hole-in-the-wall bakery bearing the last name of the Polish immigrant who founded it in 1989. The concoctions in the front case ...