Proziaki Proziaki Proziaki, soda bread - flour-based rolls with added sodium bicarbonate ("proza") originating from Subcarpathia in south-eastern Poland, also common in other parts of the country. Proziaki are produced by the use of wheat flour or wheat-secale flour, eggs, sour smietana (sour cream), water, salt and a maximum of one table spoon of sodium bicarbonate, baked on traditional tile-based cookers, heated by firewood. Proziaki can be circular shaped (diameter of 6-10 cm, thickness of around 1.5 cm) or quadrilateral. Presently, most proziaki are baked on an oven pan with a small amount of fat or lard ("smalec"). Sweet variants can
Sugar Loaf Farm the upper Shenandoah Valley in the early 1800s. The Farm's three original buildings, the farmhouse, grist mill and miller's house, were all constructed by David Summer at a time when Augusta County had emerged as the center of one of the most dominant wheat-growing and flour-processing regions in the South. Sugar Loaf Farm serves as a valuable reminder of the wheat-based agriculture that persisted in this region well into the twentieth century. Today, Sugar Loaf Farm is a privately run farm that specializes in raising Black Angus cattle. Sugar Loaf Farm is named after the distinctive cone-shaped hill on the