Name Day Cake Recipe

Directions:

1. Beat butter until creamy, add flour, salt, egg yolks, sugar, yeast, and, last, cream and chopped almonds.
2. Beat half-hour, until batter drops from spoon.
3. Add stiffly beaten egg whites.
4. Mix well again.
5. Put mixture into greased and preheated form (fluted pan or bundt pan).
6. Put in warm place and let rise to about double size.
7. Bake about 1 hour in moderate oven (350°).
8. Take out of form and sprinkle with sugar while still warm.
9. Recipe Source: The Holyday Book, by Francis X. Weiser, S.J., Harcourt, Brace and Company, Inc., New York, 1956
10. In Poland there is a custom that female names end with an a , and the male name can end with any other letter apart from a . Thanks to that, reading the name of a person, we know the gender. The most popular names in Poland: The female names (as you see all end with - a ): 1.Anna 2.Maria 3.Katarzyna 4.Malgorzata 5.Agnieszka 6.Krystyna 7. Barbara 8.Ewa 9.Elzbieta 10.Zofia The male names: 1.Jan 2.Andrzej 3.Piotr 4.Krzysztof 5.Stanislaw 6.Tomasz 7.Pawel 8.Jozef 9.Marcin 10.Marek. The popularity of names has changed over time. Now parents tend to give other names to baby girls such as: Julia, Natalia, Wiktoria, Oliwia, Weronika and baby boys: Jakub, Kacper, Filip, Mateusz, Mikolaj.