Tuesday, February 12, 2013
This year, Fat Tuesday will be celebrated on Tuesday, Feb. 12.
Sugar Hills Bakery employee Devin Hammond wrapped up a few paczki— a lemon and a raspberry — in a brown paper bag Monday afternoon, the day before the Fat Tuesday rush. The Algonquin bakery, 644 S. Main St., makes between 2,000 and 3,000 of the fried dough, a Polish specialty that has become synonymous with Fat Tuesday. Sugar Hills makes gourmet paczki, including fresh blueberry with whipped cream, cherry with whipped cream and strawberry with cream cheese. “I eat so many of them, it’s ridiculous,” Hammond said. Hammond said the bakery will open at 6 a.m. Tuesday, two hours earlier than usual. Last year, there was a line for the paczki, she said. Paczki is fried dough, not a doughnut, which is a tradition in Poland on the Thursday before …
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
This New Orleans-inspired dish is perfect for a Fat Tuesday dinner.
The traditional Polish doughnut is associated with Fat Tuesday.
Paczkis (pronounced ponch-key) were selling quickly today at Blue Cow Polish Deli in Lake in the Hills. As of noon, the small deli at 2012 W. Algonquin Road had sold 1,200 of the Polish doughnuts to customers this Fat Tuesday, said Jozef Buch, a manager at Blue Cow Polish Deli. Buch estimated they would sell 2,000 by day’s end. “The paczki is associated with Fat Tuesday because it is a very fatty pastry,” Buch said. A paczki is made with flour, butter, sugar and lard and then is fried in vegetable oil, filled with sugary jellies and topped with icing, according to a Chicago Tribune article. The paczki became a tradition for Polish families as they tried to get rid of the extra lard and meat in their homes before Lent, according to the …
Rosmart Deli bakes 3,000 pastries for Fat Tuesday, known in the Polish community as "Pączki Day"
Editor's Note: This article was orginally published March 8, 2011. While some people celebrate Fat Tuesday with colored masks and partying, many Algonquin residents celebrate by treating themselves to pączki (pronounced “pounch-ski”) traditional Polish pastries with jelly fillings. Anyone hoping for a sweet taste of Polish culture flock to Robert Rosinski’s Rosmart Deli every Fat Tuesday, often buying the delicious doughnut-like pasties by the dozen. “We sell 2 to 3,000 pączki on Fat Tuesday,” said Rosinski, who has owned and operated Rosmart Deli with his wife, Dorota, for the past seven years. “We make them the old-fashioned way, handed down from generations,” he said, and the recipe is top-secret. Rosinski came to the United States from…
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Michelle Terlecki
1:59 pm on Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Guess I better head over there. Thanks for posting:) more ›