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From: "Katharina Hines" <>
Subject: RE: Oplatek
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 12:51:57 -0500


Hi Christine,
you also could make your own.

Below is the history of the wafers and the recipe

Wafers (oplatiki )
Are wafers.
The Oblaten (german spelling) are used in church services.
It is the bread in the last supper.

The wafers were served, in the middle ages, at the polish court during
meatless days or at the end of of a meal with various confections and
Malvasia wine .
Because they are also contained sugar , the wafers were generally made by
specialized confectioners and were therefore not only sweet but expensive.
Part of the expense was the saffron and sugar.
the large portion of the saffron came from regions borders the Black Sea..
The wafers were made with iron ornaments with various patters, that were
pressed into the surface of the wafer.
The Polish irons were normally round, although rectangular in North Germany
und Dutch types were also used in Gdansk and Pomerania.
the images were generally religious.
With different iron they would make wafers for funerals, weddings,
and special religious feasts as for Easter or Christmas.
For every day use the royal coat served wafers with the impression of the
coat of arms.

The wafer consisted
of 1 cup of flour
1 cup of powdered sugar
1/4 teaspoon saffron
4 egg whites
3-4 tablespoons rosewater

perfectly wafer will be paper thin.
In Germany some of the wafers have no impressions on them they have very
thin colored pictures.
they were very famous around 1860 in Germany.
They were pretty , and bright pictures.
They were at that time easier to make , they were covered with paper
pictures , they were no more decorated with almonds and painted with colored
sugar.

Katharina


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