In Poland, pickling is a very popular method of preserving food. We frequently pickle cucumbers, cabbage and red beets. We mainly pickle beets to get sour beet juice that you can drink or also you can cook a delicious borsch that is very typical dish on Christmas Eve supper.

Look at these gingerbread cookies! Can you imagine the Christmas tree without them? I can't! I bake the gingerbread cookies every year, before Christmas and I hang them on the Christmas tree! It has already become a tradition.

The Ruthenian dumplings are very typical for Polish cuisine but the dish comes from Ruthenia, Ukraine nowadays. People in Poland love them the most from all types of dumplings. The way of preparing is very simple but time-consuming on the other hand. Taste it, you will be delighted.

Plum jam is a traditional Polish jam made for three hundred years. The best time to start preparing plum jum is the beginning of October when plums are ripe and sweet. Use the special plum type, in Poland called, Hungarian plum.