Breakfast style bread

Hello,
I am trying to figure out the name of this breakfast type of bread I remember from my youth that my parents used to pick up from a Polish bakery.

It was a sweet type of bread, baked in a loaf style, with a real crusty shell, and had raisins in it (which I always picked out!). I believe it was called something like (phonetically):
plots-ick Platzik(?)

Does that sound like anything anyone has ever come across?

Thanks for any leads!

I think you may be referring to 'Drozdzowka' with raisins.

Placek? (which is a sort of flat cake, often with fruit or some kind of topping). Could it have been babka?

was this in PL or TX?

Chałka



I use to love it when I was a kid. Chałka with butter and hot chocolate.

Wonderful when fresh, just plain.

If it is a day old or so, a nice layer of margarine / butter, to give it a little moisture.

The local deli / bakery uses some kind of cheese? for the crumbly topping, but the kids usually pick it off before I get there.

The bakery I'm was referring to was actually in Batavia, NY USA.

While the name doesn't sound anything like I recall the bread being called, that Chalka does look sort of like it. The loaf wasn't "knotted" like that but was done pretty much like it was baked in your basic loaf pan. It did have some kind of crumbly topping on it.

Does the Chalka have a yellowish tint to the bread itself? I distinctly recall the bread having a yellowish hue to it.

Thanks for all the help so far, I really appreciate it.

Yes. The one in our local deli/bakery does.

Well, now I'm just getting more confused.

Using inkrakow's note about Placek as a search point I came across this reference to a recipe: polish babka (placek), which seems to say that placek is just another name for babka. Placek definitely sounds like what recall the bread being called so maybe what I remember really is a babka.

Looks like I will need to take a trip to the polish bakery in town and do some tasting research!

If it's not chałka, then I think it has to be or maybe an oversized "bułka maślana" with raisins. I don't think it's babka, as it is much more crumbly than drożdżówka, which is quite elastic. Also babka that I know doesn't feature the crumbly and sweet "kruszonka" on top.

Chałka when it’s a day old or so, makes a good "French Toast". Served with syrup and fresh fruit like strawberries it’s delicious.
And yes it is yellowish.

In Buffalo it was also called 'Platzik'? I've been searching for recipies or bakeries in my area. there were raisins on the inside and a crumbly top--which was not quite like struedel

placek

I'm from the Buffalo area--we called it placek (sp?) too. My mom and grandma used to make it and we all just called it coffee cake. It was in the Easter basket but my mom died two years ago and no one knows how to make it. Makes me want to go to the Broadway market and get some.

You should PM Sledz.....there's a store in Chicago that has every type of Polish bread there is....he sent me a few loaves (he's Da Man:)....anyway, it's a Polish grocery store and chances are, whatever you are looking for, he will be able to find it!

ciasto (placek) drozdzowe(y)

my babci used to make this wonderful bread with goklden raisins and butter crumb topping, I need the recipe please because I want to make it but have no recipe.
My relatives are all deceased and I don't know where to get it from so I can make it like "BABCI" used to make

thanks
mania from east rochester

It sounds like you're referring to Babka.