Trampled Nobility

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is a journalist and culinary superintendent at sialababamak.pl. Monika likes to bring words, flavours and people together. She helps foreigners learn about Poland from the tastiest side. She also creates culinary spectacles in which she encourages participants to eat leftovers, breathe in the smells of the basement, and sprinkle food with golden dust.

All of Poland knows her. She is orange in colour, with a sweet and sour flavour. Ladies & Gentlemen, I give you Her Royal Tastiness the Mirabelle Plum.

Wet and juicy, yellow splotches on the pavement underfoot. I see these trampled little balls each year on Rejtana Street, where I live, close to Puławska Street; sometimes I accidentally step on them myself. Zbigniew Sierszuła’s homemade mirabelle plum liqueur, made from yellow, red or black mirabelles is something else. Sublime flavour. Time locked in a bottle. Harmony.

Unassuming magnificence

The mirabelle plum – Prunus domestica subsp. syriaca – grows throughout Poland, ofte

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Monika Kucia:

is a journalist and culinary superintendent at sialababamak.pl. Monika likes to bring words, flavours and people together. She helps foreigners learn about Poland from the tastiest side. She also creates culinary spectacles in which she encourages participants to eat leftovers, breathe in the smells of the basement, and sprinkle food with golden dust.

Translation: Annie Jaroszewicz

Publish date: 19.06.2020

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Monika Kucia:

is a journalist and culinary superintendent at sialababamak.pl. Monika likes to bring words, flavours and people together. She helps foreigners learn about Poland from the tastiest side. She also creates culinary spectacles in which she encourages participants to eat leftovers, breathe in the smells of the basement, and sprinkle food with golden dust.

The fruit of rowans (or mountain ashes) is tart, sour, slightly bitter. I add a tablespoon of orange-colored preserve to the steaming tea. I need to sweeten it because the tartness and bitterness dominate the taste.

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First, there are pinnate leaves, then foam-like flowers, and between summer and winter—red, beady fruit hangs on the branches. Apart from rowan with its scarlet berries, loved by birds, there are other varieties of this species. The fruit of the mountain ash found in Moravia contains a lot of vitamin C and is less bitter than other rowans. For gourmets, the tastiest variety is S. aucuparia Edulis, with larger and sweeter fruits that grow in heavy clusters.

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