A Polish apple cake with streusel, shortcrust and deep Jewish roots

A Polish apple cake with streusel, shortcrust and deep Jewish roots

This recipe is from Laurel Kratochvila’s Dobre Dobre: Baking from Poland and Beyond. Reposted with permission.  Read more about Kratochvila here. “In my house we never baked bread,” Łukasz Szlapa, a humble Krakowiak aerospace engineer and hobbyist bread baker, told me. “But we did bake szarlotka. It’s one of my first memories around food, the smell of baking apples, turning deep brown and caramelized in the szabaśnik, the ever-warm baking part o…