Dulce de Leche

Kajmak, a thickened and fudgy milk caramel analogous to dulce de leche, came to Poland in the eighteenth century as a luxury sweet via King Stanisław II August (not to be confused with Stanisław I, the king responsible for the baba au rhum). But the two similarly named kings is not even where the confusion over kajmak ends: The name itself can be misleading. The moniker comes from the former Ottoman empire, where it still exists today, except that in the mo