A sweet delicacy from Kociewie. Try the recipe for lidded bombomy

Bombs from the cannon – this name sounds mysterious, but it is a sweet that is extremely easy to prepare and delights with its taste, straight from Kociewie, an ethnographic region located in Gdańsk Pomerania. This is a homemade, definitely healthier alternative to caramel candies available in stores.

Already since the 19th century, the hills located between Gniew and Pelplin, as well as the fields in the Walichnowska Lowlands located in Kociewie, have become a basin famous for sugar beets grown there. In 1878, a sugar refinery was opened in Pelplin, and sugar beet plantations around the city were connected by a narrow-gauge railway network.

A by-product of sugar production was molasses. Sugar was received as a gift from sugar factory workers living in the area, as well as local farmers. That is why this product has always been in the pantries of people living in these areas. That’s how they became popular there bombs from the firecracker – fried by local housewives with sugar and molasses at home, cooled on an enameled pot lid to form a bowl.

Do you want to make lidded bombs at home? You will need the following ingredients:

• 2 cups of sugar,
• 1 cup of sweet cream,
• 1 tablespoon of margarine or butter,
• oil to lubricate the lid.

Prepare a larger frying pan. Put the butter or margarine in it and melt slightly. Add the sugar and mix vigorously with the fat, but be careful not to brown it.

Pour in the sweet cream. Stir everything constantly and cook until the sugar crystallizes.

When crystals (lumps of sugar) appear, stop cooking and pour the hot mixture onto an oiled lid placed on the pot to form a bowl. The moment you stop cooking is very important because it determines how crispy the candies will be.

When the mixture has cooled slightly, cut it into cubes. If you want to diversify the taste of the candies, you can add, for example, a bit of cocoa while cooking.

Source: Terazgotuje.pl, kitchen.kociewie.eu