Moczka '' otch-kɑ' (otherwise bryja) is a

Silesian Silesian as an adjective can mean anything from or related to Silesia. As a noun, it refers to an article, item, or person of or from Silesia. Silesian may also refer to: People and languages * Silesians, inhabitants of Silesia, either a West S ...

dish prepared for

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. It is prepared from a special type of

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, almonds,

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s, dried plums,

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s, dried figs, dried dates,

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s and a large amount of dark beer in which the ingredients are soaked. Instead of beer, a vegetable or vegetable broth was used on the heads of carp. In every part of Silesia, the list for the moczka is different, mainly differs by additions, but gingerbread remains the basis of the dish. In many German families with roots in the former German-speaking parts of Silesia, Moczka is also served as a dish on Christmas Eve and has the name ''″Lebkuchensauce″'' (gingerbread sauce) or ''″Polnische Sauce″'' (Polish sauce).Grandel, Hanna: ''Spezialitäten aus Schlesien - 107 Rezepte''; Rautenberg, Leer 1994, p. 68. With time, the recipe for the moczka changed. Today it can be made without adding beer, with fruit and compotes so that the moczka was sweet and did not resemble vegetable soup with fruit.

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