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Paczki.....
Feb. 21st, 2006 11:18 pmLittle-known fact about me #28: I'm Polish on my mom's side.
In the local supermarket was a display of foods for Mardi Gras/Shrove Tuesday/Fat Tuesday, the day before Ash Wednesday, when Lent begins. There were king cakes, other foods whose name I forgot, foods that looked like oversized cookies, and paczki. (The "a" has a little hook underneath it.) They looked like oversized jelly donuts, and so I took a 4-pack home with me.
I didn't celebrate any of my mother's family traditions while I was growing up. I remember her mentioning some of the foods, like pierogis and fastnacht kuchels (or however it's spelled), but none of the Polish traditions were carried on in my family. So we didn't eat paczki -- or any special food -- on Fat Tuesday. It was just another day.
( The Paczki tradition )
So over 4 successive days, I had one for breakfast . They have more body (and filling) than a traditional yeast-fill doughnut with icing. But they're not that much different from the standard US/Canadian donut that you'd find at Dunkin's, Tim Horton's, Krispie Kreme, and other local/regional chains.
By the time the last one was eaten, it had dried out so much that it could only be resuscitated by dunking it into coffee.
If I get these next year, I'm splitting the box with someone. Any takers?
In the local supermarket was a display of foods for Mardi Gras/Shrove Tuesday/Fat Tuesday, the day before Ash Wednesday, when Lent begins. There were king cakes, other foods whose name I forgot, foods that looked like oversized cookies, and paczki. (The "a" has a little hook underneath it.) They looked like oversized jelly donuts, and so I took a 4-pack home with me.
I didn't celebrate any of my mother's family traditions while I was growing up. I remember her mentioning some of the foods, like pierogis and fastnacht kuchels (or however it's spelled), but none of the Polish traditions were carried on in my family. So we didn't eat paczki -- or any special food -- on Fat Tuesday. It was just another day.
( The Paczki tradition )
So over 4 successive days, I had one for breakfast . They have more body (and filling) than a traditional yeast-fill doughnut with icing. But they're not that much different from the standard US/Canadian donut that you'd find at Dunkin's, Tim Horton's, Krispie Kreme, and other local/regional chains.
By the time the last one was eaten, it had dried out so much that it could only be resuscitated by dunking it into coffee.
If I get these next year, I'm splitting the box with someone. Any takers?
