Vegetables

Farming was the chief source of food for the Polish folk. The crops raised were: rye, barley, millet, buckwheat and maize, potatoes, beets, onions, radishes, turnips, kohlrabi, beans, peas, lentils, cabbages and cucumbers. Poppies were grown for their seeds and oil; hemp and sunflowers also provided cooking oils.

Our Polish immigrants who settled in the cities always provided for their winter supply by buying sacks and sacks of potatoes, dozens of heads of cabbage, a couple of sacks of onions, peas, carrots, rutabagas and navy beans. In Poland they raised these vegetables on their small plots of ground. It is no wonder they have developed many tasteful ways of preparing them.