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Ania
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By Iska Lupton
Published 2021
She usually lives in an apartment in Suwalki, but the family decided that our cooking adventure should happen at her daughter’s home just outside Poznan due to size. The house was surrounded by forests and was a half-hour drive from the lake where we all went for a late-afternoon swim.
On pampuchy day Babcia had 14 mouths to feed. This meant we ate in two ‘loads’ at the table while Babcia established a very successful production line steaming a round of buns while others rose. We ate them first with a rich pork and onion stew called gulasz, using the fluffy buns to soak up the gravy. Then we ate them with the blueberry sauce - made with blueberries we’d watched her barter for with serious gusto at the market in Poznan that morning.