Pączki

Pączki (pronounced: PONCH-key) are traditional Polish doughnuts. Pączki is the plural form of the word pączek (pronounced: PON-check) in Polish, but many English speakers use paczki as singular and paczkis as plural.

A pączek is a deep-friedto dep-fry: smażyć w dużej ilości tłuszczu piece of doughciasto shaped into a flattenedspłaszczony (to flatten - spłaszczać, zrównać z ziemią) spherekula, sfera and filled with jam or another sweet filling. A traditional filling is marmalade made from fried rose budsbud: pączek. Fresh pączki are usually covered with powdered sugar, icinglukier or bits of fried orange zestskórka z pomarańczy lub cytryny dodawana do ciasta.

Traditionally, the reason for making pączki is that all the lardsmalec, sugar, and fruit in the house would need to be used up before Lent. They are eaten especially on Fat ThursdayTłusty Czwartek, the last Thursday before Lent.

Polish emigrants have popularized this kind of doughnuts in some parts of the United States. Here, prunesprune: suszona śliwka are considered the traditional filling, but many other are used as well, including lemon, Bavarian cream, or raspberry. Due to French influence, paczki are eaten on Mardi Gras (Fat Tuesday) rather than on Fat ThursdayTłusty Czwartek. In the Polish community at Hamtramck (near Detroit) an American style Paczki Day Parade is organized annually on Mardi Gras (also known as Paczki Day in the region).

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