The last Thursday before Lent - Tlusty Czwartek

[justjohn]

_{This was from the Polish origins forum}


The last Thursday before Lent - Tlusty Czwartek

The last Thursday before Lent is really soon. What do you eat this day? In Poland nowadays almost obligatory is to eat pączki (donuts) or faworki. I am sure that you know many kind of donuts, but have you ever tried faworki? If not you can do it this year. Here is one of many possible recipes, so you can do it yourselves.

Faworki
1. 35 decagrams of flour
2. 1 spoon (a soup one) of butter
3. 3 yolks
4. 1 egg
5. 10 decagrams of thick cream (7 spoons)
6. 1 spoon of spirit or 2 ones of vodka or 1 spoon of vinegar
7. lard of oil (for “deep” frying)
8. icing sugar

- Use ingredients 1-6 to knead a dough.
- Roll it out thinly.
- Cut rectangles about 2,5-8 centimeters (1-3 inches).
- Cut each in the center along the longer side (but not to the end) and put one of ends in this slot. You will get a kind of a slack knot.
- Fry it in hot oil or lard not too long only till it will get gold color.
- Sprinkle faworki with icing sugar
and bon apetit

[dbkaczor]

mmmm.
jj. thanks for those recipes. i've never heard of faworki. but i have had paczki. the first thing my mother and i did when we got off the plane in warsaw (after checking in our hotel) was to go straight to the donut shop for paczki then immediately to wedels chocolates for our liquid chocolate hot drink. we read about these places in a poland tour book. in fact, we indulged whenever we came across the opportunity in krakow too. really very good.

[Jaga]

John,

thanks for reminding about the traditions of Fat Thiursday.

Here is more:
Traditional Pre-Lenten P¹czki (Pounchki, punchki)
www.polishsite.us/food-and-recipes/desserts-and-drinks/262-traditional-pre-lenten-pczki-pounchki-punchki.html

www.polishsite.us/food-and-recipes/desserts-and-drinks/77-paczki-day-delicious-food-for-fat-thursday-and-tuesday.html
Paczki Day: Delicious Food for Fat Thursday and Tuesday

www.polishsite.us/food-and-recipes/desserts-and-drinks/127-chrust-chruscikior-faworki.html
Chrust, Chrusciki, or Faworki

www.polishsite.us/food-and-recipes/main-dishes/78-herring-polish-way-with-potatoes-for-ash-wednesday-and-fat-tuesday.html
Herring Polish Way with Potatoes for Ash Wednesday and Fat Tuesday

[dbkaczor]

thanks for those links jaga. i have had faworki. it was called Chrust. i like that too.