Podpłomyk - a simple kind of flat bread, often made without yeast

Yeast

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Made on stones heated up in a fire, podpłomyk was a common kind of food in ancient Slavic societies

Slavic peoples

The Slavic people are an Indo-European panethnicity living in Eastern Europe, Southeast Europe, North Asia and Central Asia. The term Slavic represents a broad ethno-linguistic group of people, who speak languages belonging to the Slavic language family and share, to varying degrees, certain...

. Podpłomyki were also made in newer times by those who could not afford an enclosed stove

Stove

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 (before mid-19th century, many poor Polish peasant

Peasant

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 homes had only open fire places, and the "thick" bread required careful heating in an oven

Oven

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; to overcome the problem, such ovens were sometimes communally-owned). Now podpłomyk, actually having never fully disappeared, becomes popular again due to the interest in (pre-) medieval everyday life. Made of flour

Flour

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, water

Water

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 and salt

Salt

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 podpłomyki are often eaten with honey

Honey

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 or "konfitury" (a kind of jam). Sometimes a podpłomyk was made to test the temperature of the baker's oven before the first batch of bread was made.