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 ...

LITTLE ROCK — Babka is a big part of my childhood memories. If you don’t know what babka is, I guess the best way to describe it is a very spongy, briochelike yeast cake. It’s sweet and usually has a ...

MINERSVILLE — When the smoke from World War II cleared over Poland, there was virtually nothing left of Katherine Pehlivan’s grandparents’ possessions. The one thing that survived was her ...

WATERTOWN — Babka, a sweet yeast cake common throughout Eastern Europe, is made with flour, eggs, butter, and sugar. In this area, most bakeries offer babkas in loaf shapes, laced with cinnamon or ...

Polish babka is one of the items served at a traditional Wigilia. (File photo) HUNTSVILLE, Alabama - The Polish Language-Culture-History Club is holding a centuries-old tradition, Wigilia, on Dec. 11, ...

Variations of Poland’s most traditional Easter cake, the babka, which means “grandmother” in Polish, are baked worldwide. This rich yeast loaf is called a kulich in Russia and paska in the Ukraine ...