Oplatek Wafers/Bread

[mamborobert]

Anybody have any ideas where (or even if) you can get (or will be able to get) Oplatek bread or wafers in CM.

These are the thin wafers used in (primarily) Poland and some of thebaltic states at Christmas Eve celebrations.

Any tips more than welcome otherwise will start harrassing my next lot of visitors.

[afarang]

I suspect that it is harassment time,sadly

[afarang]

I suspect that it is harassment time,sadly

But wait, can you get or do you have recipes? If so, you could get a local baker to make them for you.

[elektrified]

You can probably find them on-line somewhere in the Czech Republic and have them shipped to you. I remember seeing them around at Christmas time when I lived there.

[LJW]

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.