Pinched Cake

About pleśniak, a friend told me this: “Everyone bakes pleśniak. Even people who don’t bake bake pleśniak.” So it’s only logical that everyone has an opinion about how pleśniak should be made. A friend from Warsaw said it must be made with blackberries. Another said his grandmother made it with gooseberries. My downstairs neighbor in Berlin, Katarzyna, said it can only be made with red currants, nothing else. Each person said their piece with the certainty of dogma. I think it’s Mał