What to cook when you need time to read “Przekrój” or to stare through the window at the snow outside?
What makes itself? What cooks in the oven like the seed of an idea? Flatbreads and potatoes are baked over embers, the Jewish stew cholent cooks in the oven overnight before the Sabbath, while leftovers from a party become a casserole.
Take three measures of flour
Cooking without effort, nonchalantly. I leave it. Let it make itself.
I go to bed. When I get up, it will be ready. Energy conservation was the basis of cookery in the past. The wood-burning oven that belongs to Zosia Kucharczyk, a folk singer from Gałki Rusinowskie, is a multi-purpose machine that heats the house, warms the soup and boils the water for pierogi (dumplings), at its edges keeps the dishes warm, leavens the starter for the dough, and allows you to warm your bones on the oven bench. Of course, one could say sentimentally that an oven like this was the heart of the home and that the act of loading it with firewood helped
