Main Ingredients:

See below ingredients and instructions of the recipe

Cooking Preparation of the Recipe:

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

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

: Copyright (C) 1986 USENET Community Trust

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