Today is Fat Tuesday, in the last hurray before the solemnity of Lent, here in Milwaukee means Fat Tuesday Paczki.
Although it looks like a jelly donut, and the treatment of Polish * made of a very rich dough that contains eggs, fats, sugar, and (sometimes) milk. A small amount of grain alcohol and is added to the dough to prevent oil from soaking in a while it fries. While certainly more intense than traditional donut, and the influence of the French chefs in the era of Poland in August the third made the dough much lighter than it reads in print.
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Inside paczki fruit filling - prune, raspberry, apple, lemon, cream, etc. - and the outside is sprinkled with sugar or iced.
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This morning I stopped at the bakery in the neighborhood - one Italian, but Milwaukee - fied enough to boost paczki in. Taken more than twenty, with 18 of those being shipped to my parent's apartment.
Enjoy Fat Tuesday!
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* (PAWNCH pronounced KK or PONCH but some speakers pronounce the word and Poonch PANCH punch or Ki-Ki-Ki)
Paczki Day
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