PÄ…czki?

Happy Fat Thursday by Matt McCipher on 2017-02-23 08:50:00 UTC Reply

Aunt Wikipedia, do your thing:

"Fat Thursday is a traditional Catholic Christian feast marking the last Thursday before Lent and is associated with the celebration of Carnival. Because Lent is a time of fasting, the next opportunity to feast would not be until Easter. Traditionally it is a day dedicated to eating, when people meet in their homes or cafés with their friends and relatives and eat large quantities of sweets, cakes and other meals usually not eaten during Lent. Among the most popular all-national dishes served on that day are pączki in Poland. or berliner, fist-sized donuts filled with rose marmalade, and faworki, French dough fingers served with lots of powdered sugar."

So... have some plates of pączki. On me.

Matt, stop trying to flirt with me. by The Triumvirate on 2017-03-04 18:55:00 UTC Reply

I know it's Shipfest and all, but really, offering me sweet things, even under the pretense that you're offering it to everyone for a holiday? You're playing to the judge.

...now, this does not mean that I do not accept your sweet things. Because I do. I still have the biggest sweet tooth ever. The pączki are mine now. Nom.

In return, have the most completely Southern candy I could think of: Goo-Goo Clusters. Ahem:
"The Goo Goo Cluster is a southern treat made of caramel, marshmallow and peanuts, all covered with chocolate. They had their 100th birthday in 2012, and are available all over the state of Tennessee."
These are flipping delicious.
PÄ…czki? by Zingenmir on 2017-02-23 16:09:00 UTC Reply

...what goes into those, exactly? As in, the filling? Because I'd swear those are sufganiot (jelly donuts in the English, don't ask *me*). We eat them around Chanukah, and they're absolutely the most delicious things around.

...mainly, though, I'm just really glad you have them, because *everyone* should get to try a good sufgania-or-something-similar-to-one.

(I'd hazard a guess as to whether pączki and berliner donuts are the same thing or not, but that Wikipedia sentence is...kind of ambiguous if you don't already know what it's talking about, and I'm not sure. Either way, I can confirm that sufganiot don't tend to be filled with rose marmalade: they're more likely to have jam of varying types and qualities, chocolate, caramel...all sorts of things. If you're ever in Israel around Chanukah, check out the bakeries--they have SO MANY TYPES. And that link is just from one bakery, too.)

Anyway. The sufgania as a cross-cultural thing? I am SO ON BOARD WITH THIS.

~Zing

Depends on what you like really. by Matt Cipher on 2017-02-23 17:00:00 UTC Reply

Today we've got four big boxes of 'em. One with strawberry jam, one with custard, one with advocaat cream and one with rose hip jam. SO yeah, I'd say pączki and sufgania are pretty much cousins.

Pączki are usually covered with powdered sugar, icing, glaze or bits of dried orange zest (Remember Jacob Kowalski from Fantastic Beasts? His Grandmama was Polish!). As far as the Wikipedia says, the difference between pączki and berliners is that the former are made with "rich dough containing eggs, fats, sugar, yeast and sometimes milk."