The Doughnut [Pączki] Day...

It's a dough nut (pączki) day tomorrow.

Enjoy.

oh yeah course it is! Tłusty Czwartek (Fatty Thursday) mmm... better than pancake day in UK, i prefer doughnuts!

It's much easier to organize. I seem to spend hours making pancakes for this family.

my mother always spends hours making doughnuts, home made ones are definitely better! im not in Poland though, so ill go and buy some i guess. at least i wont have to fight for them!

Older posters on the forum will remember that I'm quite partial to doughnuts. And this time I will fight for them.

oh yes. Guard them with your life tomorrow;P

dont leave them vunerable on your desk this time commrade ;o)

after stuffing myself with two pizzas tonight highly unlikely to eat doughnuts tomorrow so Wroclaw you can have my share :D i will let you this once matey!

Stopped by the Polski Sklep today for some meats, bread etc.... NOT A SINGLE FRIKKEN PACZKI in the store!

Gotta love the pączki, wish I knew how to make them!

if any of you here in the states have a Kroger groceries near you, stop by there as they have pączki and they must be baked by poles or germans or something because they are pretty darn good. Kroger is from the germanish town of Cincinnati. :D

Germanish?
In Cinci they can smell non-aryans a mile away :))

well there is a hood just outside the centre. :D

I'v just eaten one.... next few are waiting.... My company bought hundreds od pączki for the workers. There is no place it the kitchen to make coffe. I see pączki everywhere :)))

Hmm not really, I have my pancakes with warm blackcherrys and apples and icecream - its all about being creative :)

Doughnuts are evil :(

mind you dont tread in them country pancakes aarhh

No, the paczki day was a month ago, not today! I remember the chef at work always makes some paczkis for everybody (or maybe they just buy'em?) :)

Made Pancakes for the kiddies instead of Paczki. mmm.

R u a chef, Shawn? Is the Paczki Day in the beginning of January or at the end? U should know that.

No, just like making a mess in the kitchen.

I am not Catholic either, but I believe it has to do with the Lenten Period. The idea is to get all the good stuff in (food, drink etc...) before you give it up for Lent. This is similar to Mardi Gras in Nawleens (New Orleans) and other places.

edit: addition of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tlusty_czwartek

OK I got it. It looks like the Paczki Day is celebrated on Fat Tuesday or Fat Thursday (two different things) depending on the location: URL

That is interesting. I never knew that.

pączki? And what about Faworki?

I don't like faworki/chruściki... too dry

Here in Wisconsin the churches organize "ponchka dances". They had one this Saturday. There was a polka band playing and at 8:00pm they start serving pączki. Everything would be cool, exept those are the worst tasting pączki you could ever eat! TRhey buy them from a store and they don't know how to make them. They are undercooked with raw batter still inside then they stuff them with the cheapest, bitterest raspberyy or prune filling you could ever imagine. My daughter took one look and turned away. My 4 year old son took a bite then stuck his finger in the hole and the red raspberry juices started floated out and he tells me his finger is bleeding. He's such a little joker.
He gets that from me :)

There must be either something wrong with the recipe, or they are not stored properly. They shouldn't be really dry.