Ingredients
2 cups fruit, such as pitted cherries, apples, blueberries, plums or peaches.
3/4 cup water
1/3 cup sugar (optional)
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon or cardamom (optional)
1 teaspoon lemon juice (optional)
2 to 4 tablespoons fine dry bread crumbs

Combine the fruit of your choice, water, and sugar in a saucepan. Bring to boiling, then cook and stir until the fruit is tender and the water almost gone. Remove from heat.

Mash the fruit slightly with potato masher. Add cinnamon and or cardamom and lemon juice. Cook and stir over low heat, just until the mixture is thick.

Stir in enough breadcrumbs to make the filling very thick.

Ingredients
2 cups dried, pitted prunes
1 tablespoon lemon juice
1 tablespoon brown sugar

In a saucepan on the stove, cover the prunes with water. Bring just to boiling, cover, remove from heat, and let stand 20 minutes. Drain the prunes, then add lemon juice and sugar, and cook until almost all of the liquid is gone.

Treasured Polish Recipes for Americans

Ingredients
4 cups raw potatoes, grated
2 eggs
whole blue plums
2 cups flour
1 tsp salt

Pour brown water off potatoes. Add eggs, flour, salt and mix thoroughly. Make a narrow long roll on floured board. Cut into 1 inch pieces and into the center of each press a large whole plum. Pull up edges of dough and seal. Drop into salted boiling water to cook for 8 to 10 minutes, until they come to the surface. Serve with sauce made of heaping TB butter, 1/2 cup sweet cream, 1/4 cup sugar and 1/2 tsp cinnamon. Heat this sauce. Open the dumplings with two forks, pour sauce over them. You may substitute 4 cups of mashed cooked potatoes and add 1 TB milk. These may be filled with chopped meat or chopped fish and fried in butter or deep fat.

Treasured Polish Recipes for Americans

Ingredients
6 apples
1/2 cup sugar
1/4 tsp cinnamon

Peel and put apples through coarse blade of grinder. Mix with sugar and cinnamon. Cover the cooked pierogi with thick sour cream, buttered bread crumbs, sugar and cinnamon. Bake in oven at 350 for 15 minutes.

Treasured Polish Recipes for Americans

Ingredients
Fruit preserves or conserve of your choice.

The fruit preserves or conserve must be thick.

Treasured Polish Recipes for Americans

Ingredients
blueberries
sugar
cherries

Sugar fruit generously for half hour before using.

Treasured Polish Recipes for Americans

Ingredients
plums
sugar
cinnamon

Peel and stone plums. Fill cavity with sugar and cinnamon. Dip in sugar. Cover with dough and seal edges with egg white. Serve with whipped cream.

Treasured Polish Recipes for Americans

Ingredients
1 cup cooked prunes
1 tsp lemon juice
1 tsp sugar

Soak prunes over night. cook with sugar and lemon juice. When cool, remove stones and fill pierogi. Serve with bread crumbs browned in melted butter.

Polish Cook Book

Ingredients
1 cup prunes (cooked)
1 tsp lemon juice
1 TB sugar

Soak prunes in water for 9 to 10 hours. Cook with lemon juice and sugar. Cool, remove pits and fill.

The New Polish Cuisine by Chef Michael J. Baruch

Ingredients
1 1/2 cups pitted prunes
1/2 cup golden raisins
2 tsp Vanilla Sugar
1 tsp lemon juice
1/2 cup water

Place all of the ingredients into a medium sized nonstick saucepot, and stew over medium low heat for 20 to 25 minutes until the prunes are tender. Cool for at least 3 hours before using.

Makes about 2 cups