Main Ingredients:

See below ingredients and instructions of the recipe

Cooking Preparation of the Recipe:

1 C Cracked wheat or bulgur 2 C Water
2 C Hot water 1 t Salt
1/2 C Poppy seeds Festive spirits
1 C Honey

Soak wheat in about 2 cups of hot water for 30 minutes. Bring to a boil
and cook covered until tender. Mix in poppy seed.

Cook honey with remaining 2 cups of water for 20 minutes. Cool and serve
with wheat and poppy seed mixture.

NOTES:

* Christmas Eve Kutia -- This recipe could be used as part of a 12-course
meal known in Polish as Wigilia, or on its own. Wigilia is eaten after
sundown on Christmas Eve. Yield: Serves 4-6.

* For added enjoyment a liberal amount of festive spirits may be added. In
Poland the festive spirit is usually called Spiritus, which is grain
alcohol.

: Difficulty: easy.
: Time: 1 hour.
: Precision: Approximate measurement OK.

: Original recipe passed down through the generations and translated from
Polish into English (with a few mods) by Edward Chrzanowski
: MFCF, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
: echrzanowski#watmath.waterloo.edu or
{ihnp4,allegra,utzoo}!watmath!echrzanowski

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