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Traditional Polish Hot Beer Milkshake

You need beer (well, lager), sour cream (though ordinary cream will probably do), egg yolks(s) and sugar or honey. Optionally - dry crumbly fresh white cheese (drained cottage cheese will do).

Mix together the cream and egg yolks in a cup. Heat the beer, and add the sugar or honey. Add the cream&egg, whisking all the time. Drink, or  - pour over cheese in a bowl and eat.  People add spices.

Traditional Polish Hot Beer Lentshake

This, like the non-fast version, is a breakfast dish. You need beer, butter, and bread. Heat the beer. Add the butter. Pour it over bread. Enjoy!

Herring Stovies

You need herrings, potatoes, onions, fat and nutmeg.

Soak out the salt from your herrings. Slice them into small pieces. Peel and slice the potatoes. Chop the onions and fry them a bit. Put layers of potato, herring and onion into an oven-proof dish, finishing with potatoes. Sprinkle generously with nutmeg, cover with a layer of breadcrumbs and dot with butter, or oil if it’s Lent. Bake for a while covered (?20 mins?) and then the same time again uncovered. Eat.

Poached Frozen Striped Catfish

Frozen catfish fillets,  an lemon, olive oil, flat-leaf parsley (if you can get it; it has much more flavour than the curly kind)

Put slices of lemon on the bottom of a frying pan, the fillets on top, smear them with olive oil and a little salt, cover with vast amounts of chopped fresh parsley. Cover and poach slooooowly. Eat with millet or, at a pinch, cous cous.