makowiec

plural makowce

1. countablerareuncountableA Polish cake (flat or rolled) layered with poppy seed-based paste.

   MAKOWIEC. (Poppy-seed. roll).

   1957, Sula Benet, Festive recipes and festival menus, page 147

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   If you have a cookie spatula, slide it under the makowiec and transfer it to the baking pan.

   2007, Greg Patent, A Baker's Odyssey, page 219

   She was trained by the nuns to be their cook and therefore she learned to make very beautiful and sumptuous gourmet dishes, including croissants and delicious fancy desserts. Her makowiec was the best I have ever tasted.

   2011, Frank Cebulski, Lonely Nights and Wild Women: Concrete Visual Shaped Poems, page 54

   “There’s a big Polish community in this area,” he [Zen Banas] said, “and there’s a lot of Polish Christmas traditions,” like celebrating on Christmas Eve with 12 different dishes on the table — one of which is the poppy seed makowiec.

   2011 December 16, Tammy La Gorce, “Appealing to Nostalgia for the Old Country”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 29 Apr 2012

   Makowiec goes against most traditional bread-making principles in that it uses a yeast dough but doesn’t give it a final rise.

   2025 October 14, Laurel Kratochvila, “Poppy Seed Roll: Makowiec”, in Dobre Dobre: Baking from Poland and Beyond, San Francisco, Calif.: Chronicle Books, →ISBN