Delicje szampańskie

Name: Delicje szampańskie
Pronunciation: dɛˈlʲiʦ̑ʲjɛ ˈʃãmpãj̃sʲcɛ
Translation: Champagne delicacies
Producer: LU Polska
Weight:  14,7 g/0.5 oz per candy
Price: 3 PLN/$ 0.95/€ 0.75/£ 0.60 per 147 g/5.2 oz
Energy: 375 kcal/100g, 55 kcal/cake

Ingredients: glucose-fructose syrup, sugar, chocolate 15% (sugar, cocoa mass, cocoa butter, emulsifiers: soya lecithin, E476, flavours), wheat flour, eggs, potato starch, humectant: glycerol, rapeseed oil, acidity regulators: citric acid, malic acid, trisodium citrate, ascorbic acid, concentrated orange juice and comminuted orange 0.5%, gelling agents: pectin, guar gum, concentrated multifruit juice, flavours, salt, raising agent: ammonium hydrogen carbonate, emulsifier: E471, maltodextrin, colours (mixed carotenes).

Delicje szampańskie are round soft sponge cakes with fruit jelly, topped with dark chocolate. The jelly comes in various flavours: orange (the original one), apricot, raspberry, cherry and blueberry. The have been produced since 1977 in Płońsk. Interestingly, up till May 2011, the factory had been run by Wedel, but was taken over by LU Polska. Wedel subsequently introduced his own version of the cakes called Jedyne.

Herbatniki

Name: Herbatniki
Pronunciation: xɛrˈbatʲɲikʲi
Translation: tea with suffix -nik (added to various types of cookies or cakes)
Producer: Jurzenka, Krakuski, LU
Weight: approx. 6,5 g/2.20 oz per cookie
Price: approx. 1.00 PLN/$ 0.30/€ 0.20/£ 0.18 per a package of 10
Energy: approx. 30 kcal per cookie

Ingredients: wheat flour, sugar, vegetable fat, inverted sugar syrup, starch, whey powder, raising agents: sodium and ammonium carbonates, emulsifier: soya lecithin, salt, flavour.

Herbatniki are rectangular cookies/biscuits with distinctively decorated edges and symmetrical holes on the surface. They’re produced by various companies; the most prominent ones include Jutrzenka, Krakuski and LU. They’re very often dipped in tea, hence their name, and can also be used as a bottom layer of a number of cold desserts (e.g. in a quicker variation of Stefanka).

Bieszczadzkie suchary

Name: Bieszczadzkie suchary. Kruche i chrupiące
Pronunciation: bʲjɛʃˈʧ̑aʦ̑cɛ ˈsuxarɨ ˈkruxɛ i xruˈpʲiɔnʦ̑ɛ
Translation: Rusks from Bieszczady. Crispy and crunchy
Producer: San/LU Polska/Kraft Foods
Weight: 90g/3.17oz
Price: 1.49 PLN/$ 0.48/€ 0.36/£ 0.30
Energy: 390 kcal/100g; 58 kcal/one rusk

Ingredients: wheat flour, rye flour, glucose-fructose syrup, barley malt extract, palm oil, sugar, caraway seed, salt, raising agent (ammonium hydrogen carbonate), dried yeast.

One bag contains 6 rectangular rusks (8 x 4.5cm/3.1 x 1.8in) with punctures on their surface. They are very hard, crispy and smell of caraway. Their production commenced right before World War II in Jarosław.