20231108 ======== 19:30 ----- I had been eating Kogel-mogel [1] when I was a child. I remember while my grandmother was making this dessert for me. I was probably around five. This dessert is made from egg yolks and sugar. It would be shocking today when a child is eating not cooked eggs. We are afraid of Salmonella and so on. Even I as an adult would be careful with dishes from not cooked eggs as for eg. Steak tartare. Let alone when you're a child. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kogel_mogel [1] But then Kogel-mogel was a standard dessert. People believed that it could help for a sore throat. I remember that it was delicious then but I won't try this today. I've read about it on Wikipedia. There are written that "[...] The dessert was made popular during the communist era food shortages, including sugar. It is still eaten in Norway, Poland and in Polish communities around the world. [...]". I'm thinking that it isn't true. I don't know anybody who is eating Kogel-mogel in Poland these days. I think also that the origins of that dessert could be not connected with communist shortages. I think that it could be the thing well known long before WWII. 20:00 ----- Polish cuisine has several shocking dishes as Kogel-mogel. My son is a big fan of pickled cucumbers. There are many stories of taking pickled cucumber as rotten food in other countries. I know children who want to eat Czernina soup [2] which is made from a duck blood (because it has a sweet taste). But in my family Czernina isn't popular. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czernina [2] But I'm a big fan of Steak tartare which is made from a raw meat, chopped onion and an egg yolk. But the point of view depends on point of sitting and while a trip to China I was asked: so you are eating only a sandwich every day for breakfast?! I fully understood this after a long time. For me eating Chinese soups for breakfast wasn't a normal thing because it is too fat. But I realized that in Europe we have many kinds of bread and side dishes for it. Person who asked the question was probably thinking about supermarket toast bread which has only a little in common (or almost nothing apart from the name) with wide range of bakery products in Poland. An another time I've got to know that people are eating sandwiches with mayonnaise instead of butter. So in Poland the standard way of eating a sandwich is with butter. Every Pole wants to buy the "true butter" (more than 82% of fat) and has a stock of butter in the fridge. It's probably connected with a winter time while people try to eat a fatty food. So this entry I must end with a bread slice with lard [3] and salt. While you are thinking about lard it isn't obvious how it could be tasty. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lard [3] But you must trust me that a well prepared lard could be delicious thing. It's kind of simple dish which is similar to eating a bread slice with olive oil. I've eaten it once while I was abroad and I was also loved with that food. I got hungry while writing this. If this note made you eat something, you can write to me about your dishes.