&sq=&lang=&file=File:91365_Mazurek.jpg) Traditional home-made mazurek | |
| Alternative names | Easter shortcake[1] |
|---|---|
| Type | Pastry |
| Place of origin | Poland |
| Serving temperature | Room |
| Main ingredients | flour, sugar, butter or margarine, eggs, icing, candied or dried fruits, nuts |
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Mazurek is a variety of cake baked in Poland for Easter.[1][2] It has a flat shape[3] and is very sweet.[3]
According to Polish gastronomy coursebooks, typical mazurek is a cake that can be made of one or two sheets of short (or half-short) pastry or one sheet of short (or half-short) pastry covered with a sheet of butter sponge cake[2]. The two sheets are fixed together with a help of a layer of marmalade.[2] In case of one-sheet version, marmalade is skipped or goes on top, under the layer of icing. The top of mazurek is covered with a layer of icing (i.e. sugar icing or kajmak) or jelly.[2] It is also decorated with nut-based icing or almond-based icing and candied fruits[2]. Traditionally, home-baked mazurek cakes are often decorated with dried fruits and nuts.
In the one-sheet version, the cake includes the borders made of rolled half-short pastry[2][4]. Sometimes the shortcrust base is crowned with a lattice made of half-short or macaroon pastry.
Among other versions, often to be found in popular cook books and gastronomy coursebooks is "Gypsy mazurek" (mazurek cygański). A sheet of half-short pastry is half-baked, covered with a layer made of dried fruit, almonds, egg yolks creamed with sugar and whipped egg white and baked again.[2]
- ^ a b Magdalena Głodek / Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MRIRW). "Mazurek orzechowy – palce lizać / Nutty Easter shortcake-yummy!" (PDF). Polish Food (in English and Polish). Vol. Spring 2014 / no. 1-2014 (68). Agency for Restructuring and Modernisation of Agriculture (ARiMR), with the help of Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development. pp. 10–11. ISSN 1232-9541.
- ^ a b c d e f g Konarzewska, Małgorzata (2011). "3.14. Mazurki". Technologia gastronomiczna z towaroznawstwem: podręcznik do nauki zawodu kucharz w technikum i szkole policealnej. Tom 2 (in Polish). Warszawa: Wydawnictwa Szkolne i Pedagogiczne. pp. 144–146.
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