Sunday, June 13, 2010

Exceptional candy from Poland

I just ate the most wonderful caramel candy. You see, last weekend at the fêtes consulaires, I took a candy from Poland's booth. Someone told me it was a caramel candy. I just took one, not expecting anything special...but since it was quite big (about 3×1×1 cm³), I decided not to eat it right away, but leave it for a time when I wouldn't be rushed to finish it. You know what caramel candies are like...they last!

So today I finally tried it. And not only could I bite it into two (instead of popping the whole big thing into my mouth), it wasn't even sticky! It was a type of "falling apart" candy with a slightly liquid caramel filling. Oh, yummy...

I searched online to see whether this was some Polish speciality, and apparently it is...on a forum I found a pretty good description if it:

My husband works with a woman from Poland who goes back there occasionally. Whenever she goes, she brings back the MOST AMAZING caramel candies. Instead of being hard to chew and sticking to the teeth, they are a little grainy and dissolve in the mouth. They are SO FABULOUS. She gave us a few the other day and now I'm on the hunt for them over here in the U.S. I saved the wrappers (Wytwornia Cukierkow "Ciagutka Mleczna" and Gopland "Krowki") and have been searching on Google for retailers over here.

Someone let me know where I can find it...

(And since it isn't like "normal" caramel candies, it did not last...and it's finished too soon! :/ )

Edit: Seems that they are called krowki, which translates as little cows...and I even found a recipe:

Krowki (Little Cows)

1 1/4 cups plus 1 teaspoon milk
4 cups sugar
1 can sweetened condensed milk
1 1/2 sticks (12 tablespoons) butter
6 tablespoons powdered milk

Cook the milk, sugar and condensed milk over very low heat for 1 hour. Remove from heat. Add the butter and powdered milk and mix well. Lay out on a cooking sheet at a thickess of 1/2 inch. Cut into squares, let cool and harden and roll into papers, if you want.

Note: Krowki is similar to a soft praline, use directions for pralines to get to the right cooking stage.

Hmm...don't know whether it'll work if I try it...

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