Placek

It's been snowing sideways for 24 hours
so I have started to think about
making some placek.

In fact, it's been snowing almost as much
as the "good old days" -
Hey! what is that white rectangle up on the cupboard door?

Yes! Clara has a recipe stuck to the handle of the cupboard door
with a clothespin.  Maybe it's her placek recipe.

Maybe it's this one.
Some few of us recognize this document:
Mom's/Clara's placek recipe
cut from a newspaper and
reformatted with tape on cardboard.

When Marty or I would host a party in the basement party area,
Mom would spend the evening in the kitchen, baking placek.
The parents were around, but not hovering;
parallel and companionable, yet not intrusive.

The about.com Placek page looks good to me.

So does the "Polish Easter Placek" page of Buffalo blogger Elizabeth Hyzy.

Have you, dear families, a favorite placek recipe you would like to blog up here?  Do please send it on to me and I shall put it up.  Include a photo of your kitchen and some people in it!

From all this, we can learn that the letter "c" is pronounced in Polish as "ts."  In fact, when we see a Polish word new to us, and discern a "c," we can remember placek and say it close to correctly.  Some of us need all the help we can get.

In the never-ending pursuit of scholarship, we inquire as to the etymology of placek.  If we go to Wiktionary and check out the left sidebar, we see links to versions built by people fluent in other languages, including Polski.

Witaj w Wikisłowniku! "Welcome to WikiDictionary!"  Well, thanks!  How about we look up placek?  We type it in and click Szukaj.

Go ahead - expand your concept of this dish.  You won't be disappointed.