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== Winey Eggs == | == Winey Eggs == | ||
There's a breakfast dish popular with Polish college students that is known under the fancy name, "''jajecznica na winie''", which literally means "scrambled eggs on wine". This is a joke name, of course; which college student would waste good wine (or even not so good wine) by adding it to scrambled eggs? The name actually comes from the expression "''co się nawinie''", meaning "whatever is at hand", which is exactly what ingredients are added to the dish (other than the mandatory eggs that is). | |||
And yet, in Czerniecki's cookbook, we can find, beside the "simple scrambled eggs", a recipe for "''jajecznica z winem''", or "scrambled eggs with wine". This time, it's no joke; it's an egg dish made with actual wine. Here it goes: | |||
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| '''Jajecznica z winem'''<br> | | '''Eggs fried with wine'''<br> | ||
Melt butter in a clay pot, break eggs into wine and beat together with sugar and cinnamon; pour onto hot butter; once fried, serve in the pot and do not stir. | |||
| oryg = '''Jajecznica z winem'''<br> | |||
Masła w rynce rozpuść, jajec rozbij z winem i cukrem, i cynamonem; ubij to społem, a wlej na gorące masło; usmażywszy, daj z rynką, a nie mieszaj. | Masła w rynce rozpuść, jajec rozbij z winem i cukrem, i cynamonem; ubij to społem, a wlej na gorące masło; usmażywszy, daj z rynką, a nie mieszaj. | ||
| źródło = ''Op. cit.'', | | źródło = ''Op. cit.'', p. 74 }} | ||
[[File:Jajecznica na winie 1.jpg|thumb|upright| | [[File:Jajecznica na winie 1.jpg|thumb|upright|Eggs and wine, salt, sugar and cinnamon]] | ||
The last instruction ("do not stir") indicates that it's not really scrambled eggs, but again a kind of sweet omelette (apparently, the word "''jajecznica''" had a broader meaning in Czerniecki's times than it has today). | |||
I've decided to try out this recipe myself. I used three eggs, a teaspoon of sugar, a pinch each of salt and cinnamon or ⅓ glass of wine. Hungarian wine was the most popular with 17th-century Poles, so I chose a sweet Tokay for this dish. | |||
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[[File:Jajecznica na winie 2.jpg|thumb|left|upright| | [[File:Jajecznica na winie 2.jpg|thumb|left|upright|Egg-and-wine mixture pour onto a pan]] | ||
I beat the eggs with the pinch of salt, then I added the sugar, cinnamon and wine, and pour the whole mixture onto a butter-greased pan. The original recipe doesn't call for rasins, but I figured they wouldn't make the dish any less authentic and added them as well. | |||
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[[File:Jajecznica na winie 3.jpg|thumb|upright| | [[File:Jajecznica na winie 3.jpg|thumb|upright|Almost ready…]] | ||
The egg batter was quite fluffy at first, but then collapsed, which I believe was caused by the addition of wine, as it never happened to me before in regular omelettes. At least it was pretty easy to fold this omelette in half and even in quarter. | |||
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[[File:Jajecznica na winie 5.jpg|thumb|left|upright| | [[File:Jajecznica na winie 5.jpg|thumb|left|upright|The final effect being eaten]] | ||
I fried it a little more, flipped onto a plate (taking advantage of using a teflon pan rather than a clay pot) and dusted with powdered sugar (or "sugar flour", as Czerniecki would have called it). | |||
I liked the distinctive winey aroma which lightly contrasted the sweetness of the sugar. And, what's also important, I was quite filled with this simple breakfast. | |||
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