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Preparing for Polish Summer Picnic

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Rob Szczublewski of Toledo with loaf pans full of twice-risen dough that will soon go in the oven. Volunteers prepared Polish coffee cakes, called placzek, Thursday for the Toledo Area Polka Society's Polish Summer Picnic. The event takes place Friday and Saturday in Oregon.

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Marie Marek, of Toledo, left and rear, gets some advice from Rob Szczublewski while helping make Polish coffee cakes, called placzek for the Toledo Area Polka Society's Polish Summer Picnic. The event takes place Friday and Saturday at Oak Shade Grove in Oregon.

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Judy Kwiatkowski, of Oregon, left, stirs a pan of milk, butter, sugar, margarine as Rob Szczublewski, of Toledo, unveils the loaf pans full of twice-risen dough before putting them in the oven.

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Kevin Kwiatkowski, left, holds a bowl of dough while Mike Marek, of Toledo, right and rear, moves other bowls around to create room in the warm oven for one more bowl of dough. Volunteers prepared Polish coffee cakes, called placzek, for the Toledo Area Polka Society's Polish Summer Picnic.

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Dave Snyder, of Toledo, left, scrapes dough into a bowl held by Kevin Kwiatkowski, of Oregon.

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Precision is an important part of baking placzek. Karla Parsons, of Walbridge, left, writes down the time that Dave Snyder, of Toledo, Jean Rybka, of Temperance, Michigan, and Kevin Kwiatkowski, of Oregon, put the dough in a pan to rise for the first time.

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A few of the 17 dozen jumbo eggs that were purchased to make the placzek.

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Rob Szczublewski weighs the amount of once-risen dough that goes into each loaf pan.

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Dave Snyder scrapes the sides of the mixing bowl while helping to prepare Polish coffee cakes, called placzek.

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