The wafer in Poland is the first and most important Christmas Eve meal – the bread of love. It is made from the same material as the wafers used in church rituals – it is a unique bread, baked very thinly from the most white, sifted wheat flower and pure water. Bread is split from generations as a symbol of brotherhood and unity.

With bread and salt...
 

The traditional greeting with bread and salt is in Slavonic people a symbol of friendship and hospitality, and in polish customs it survived to this day.

The greeting with bread and salt symbolises giving the visitor the best that we have. It means wishing of wealth and welfare, and on the other hand protection against bad influence and unclean forces.