Mieszanka Wedlowska

Name: Mieszanka Wedlowska
Pronunciation: mʲiɛˈʃanka vɛdˈlɔfska
Translation: Wedel Mix
Producer: Wedel/LOTTE
Weight: approx. 10 g/0.35 oz per candy
Price: 30 PLN/$ 9.50/€ 7.30/£ 6.10 per 1 kg/35 oz
Energy: approx. 48 kcal per candy

Ingredients*: sugar, dark chocolate (sugar, cocoa mass, cocoa butter, milk fat, emulsifiers: soya lecithin and E476, flavours), partially hydrogenated vegetable fat, glucose syrup, dried whey, dried whole milk, peanut mass, sweetened condensed milk, fat-reduced cocoa powder, dessicated coconut, peanuts, wafers (wheat flour, rye flour, sunflower oil, dried eggs, maltodextrin, invert sugar solution, raising agents: sodium hydrogen carbonate, ammonium hydrogen carbonate and sodium pyrosulfite, emulsifier: soya lecithin, salt, caramelized cocoa bean (cocoa bean, sugar), dried yoghurt, milk fat, acidity regulator: citric acid, butter, gelling agent: agar, flavours, enzyme: invertase, colourings: carminic acid, caramel. Dark chocolate: cocoa solids min. 47%.

*ingredients of individual candies are not given on the wrappers – this list applies to all candies and is found on the package.

The Wedel Mix started to be produced in the 1930s and immediately caught on. The content of the Mix changed several times over the decades. Nowadays only Bajeczny and Pierrot belong to the original one. The current line-up:

Bajeczny (Fabulous) – I dedicated one entry to the bar version of it. It contains cocoa filling with crumbled wafers.

Pierrot (Pierrot) – its bar version has already been described. It’s filled with cocoa and crumbled peanuts.

Manilla (Manilla) – milk and caramel mass. Its name is a reference to a bar from the 1960s. It was a chocolate block (something similar to chocolate salami), which used to be very popular in Poland back then.

Bałamutka (Lurer) – coconut filling with shredded coconut

Liryk (Lyricist) – milk cream filling with mini chocolate chips

Nygusek (Skiver) – Coke-flavoured jelly

Paryski (Parisian) – strawberry jelly

Dragon (Dragon) – spicy-flavoured caramel filling

Among the discontinued ones, the most popular were: Irys (Iris; dulce de leche mass), Rekord (Record; peanuts, caramel and nougat), Figiel (Prank; apple jelly and caramel), Wenecki (Venetian; strawberry jelly), Kawuś (Coffeer; coffee and cocoa), Wiedeński (Viennese; cherry jelly), Tarragona (Tarragona; Sangria-flavoured), Kokoladka (Cocolate; coconut and cocoa), Arachidka (Peanutess; peanuts).

Pierrot

Name: Pierrot
Pronunciation: ˈpʲjɛrːɔt
Translation: Pierrot
Producer: E.Wedel/LOTTE
Weight: 45 g/1.59 oz
Price: 1.50 PLN/$ 0.50/€ 0.35/£ 0.30
Energy: 248 kcal

Ingredients: milk chocolate 21% (sugar, cocoa butter, cocoa mass, dried whole milk, dried whey, milk fat, emulsifiers: soya lecithin and E 476, flavours), peanuts (paste and pieces) 25%, sugar, partially hydrogenated vegetable fat, dried whey, fat-reduced cocoa powder, dried whole milk. Milk chocolate: cocoa solids min. 31%, milk solids min. 14%.

Pierrot is a bar with peanut filling (which contains peanuts crumbs) covered with a thick layer of milk chocolate. It’s Bajeczny‘s brother in that they both developed from candies of Mieszanka Wedlowska (Wedel Mix) and initially were both scarce. Pierrot has been produced since the 1930s as a part of the mix (and since 1995 as a separate bar) by Wedel in Warsaw.

Bajeczny

Name: Bajeczny
Pronunciation: baˈjɛʧ̑nɨ
Translation: Fabulous
Producer: E.Wedel/LOTTE
Weight: 45 g/1.59 oz
Price: 1.50 PLN/$ 0.50/€ 0.35/£ 0.30
Energy: 549 kcal/100 g, 247 kcal/45 g

Ingredients: milk chocolate 23% (sugar, cocoa butter, cocoa mass, dried whole milk, dried whey, milk fat, emulsifiers (soya lecithin, E 476), flavouring), sugar, partially hydrogenated vegetable fat, wheat flour, peanuts 7.8% (paste and pieces), dried whey, dried whole milk, fat-reduced cocoa powder, rye flour, sunflower oil, egg powder, desiccated coconut, maltodextrin, emulsifier (soya lecithin, invert sugar solution, dried yoghurt, salty, raising agents: sodium hydrogen carbonate, ammonium hydrogen carbohydrate, sodium metabisulphite, flavourings. Milk chocolate: cocoa solids min. 31%, milk solids min. 14%.

Bajeczny is a bar with peanut filling enriched with crumbled wafers, covered with a thin layer of milk chocolate. Originally, it was a type of a chocolate candy from Mieszanka Wedlowska (Wedel Mix – I will definitely devote one entry to the Wedel Mix in the future!). As a part of the mix, it has been produced since 1930s. Because of the special equipment required for its production it used to be (along with the Pierrot and currently-withdrawn Rekord) the rarest type in the mix. In 1995 the bigger, bar version appeared. It’s considered one of the most popular types of sweets in Poland.