Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Today's treat from Harringay's High Street: Polish cheesecake
Some of you may know that I am slightly obsessive in my search for good Polish cheesecake. When I first came to London, I would trek to Baron's Court just for the pleasure of eating it. Not so long ago, I found a home-made one in Ciacho just by the bridge (although their shutters have been down for a while, anyone know why?) but they often ran out of it.
Today, I was wandering past the Polish supermarket a little further down (whose name I thought I would remember but following my dessert coma I can't quite remember how it is spelled) and after a bit of pointing I discovered that they had the Krakow-style cheesecake that I love and which I now know is called sernik krakowski (no more pointing) thanks to my Twitter pals (sorry, in my haste to get it down my face, I took a slightly out of focus picture).
As well as this style, they have other sorts of cheesecake, plus lots of other lovely looking food but it's the Krakow cheesecake I'll be back for...
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Permalink Reply by Andrew Stillman on
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looks delicious. is this the place opposite mcdonalds?
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Permalink Reply by Liz on
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No, further up, next to the Hungarian store, Paprika. PROTIP: the Paprika crisps from Paprika are the biz.
The place near McDonalds, Ciacho, does do it too, although not every day, but they've not been open for a few days.
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No, as I said above, the one in that post is the one by the bridge. The Polish supermarket I went into today is next to Paprika about a third of the way down Grand Parade. (I knew I should have snapped a picture of it but my hands were full of shopping).
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Found it, it's called Poziomka (strawberry)
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Permalink Reply by NIck and Lizzy on
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Truszkawka is Polish for strawberry I believe, but many thanks for the cheesecake research. I ate a great deal of sernik when I was in Wroclaw and pregnant with my first born who is now 5. So much so I haven't been in search of it despite the proximity of some excellent Polish and E Europe delis on Green Lanes. But now I may need to fall of the cheese cake wagon. Another thing I ate loads of in Poland were these buns swirled with poppy seed paste (they have something similar in Germany I think). I used to have 2 everyday in the 'second breakfast' break from language school. Anyone on here know a good place for poppy seed paste buns?
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Ah okay. That's Google translate for you. My Polish begins and ends at sernik.
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Permalink Reply by vaneska on
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I think (but I'm sure there'll be a Polish speaker around to confirm whether I'm right or wrong), that poziomka is most likely wild strawberry and the other is a cultivated strawberry.
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That's right, poziomka is a wild strawberry and truskawka is the cultivated one.
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Really, how cool they have two different words! Sorry for showing off above. I can't remember much Polish from my studies, other than truskawka and sernik and other food terms... will have to start shopping more in the Polish shops and embarrassing myself speaking broken Polish to the staff there.
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I haven't had the cheesecake from Ciacho (which means cake, btw), but the one from Poziomka is pretty close to tasting homemade - this has only been confirmed by one other Polish person so opinions may still vary. I've had the szarlotka (apple cake) and that tasted like any store-bought version, but the cheesecake is quality. The one topped with apricots is great, too.
I would also recommend the doughnuts - for want of a better word - filled with cheese. They're triangle shaped pastries that sit in the case above the cakes. I am making this recommendation as a sort of self-preservation method since the more people know about them, the more chance there is of them being sold out when I go there and therefore the chance to buy one, or ten, will be gone. I have a problem. :)
Lastly, Polish cheesecake isn't _that_ hard to make, especially since they sell tubs of pre-mixed cheese at most stores. You add sugar, vanilla, eggs, etc, but the hard work of mincing the cheese and combining it with cream is done for you. Worth investigating, though then you have a whole cake at home, which can be a tasty disaster.
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