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Prep Time: 0 Minutes Cook Time: 60 Minutes |
Ready In: 60 Minutes Servings: 12 |
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A wonderful family custom is the practice of celebrating the Nameday of a person — on the feast of one's patron saint, the person is honored in a special way. Traditionally the person attends Mass, and the family wishes a happy feast day. Read more . Usually a little party or festive food is included in the celebration. The favourite cake for the Name Day is baked in a fluted tube pan and is called Napfkuchen in Germany, Guglhupf in Austria, Kuglof in Hungary, and Babka among the Slavic nations. Ingredients:
1/2 cup heavy cream |
1 cake of yeast |
7 ounces fine flour |
5 ounces butter |
2-1/2 ounces sugar |
grated rind of 1 lemon |
4 egg yolks |
4 egg whites |
3 ounces raisins |
3 ounces almonds |
salt |
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.
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