How do you pronounce and spell... a crispy powdered sugar coated pastry?

billionj 1 | 1

26 Dec 2010 / #1

My old grandma used to make a crispy powdered sugar coated pastry and I recall she called it something like "Kris-chooky"

Does anyone know how that Polish pastry is spelled and pronounced please?

Thank you very much,

mafketis 38 | 10911

26 Dec 2010 / #2

chruściki would be my guess

hroosh-CHEE-kee (the initial ch is like Spanish j if that helps)

Polonius3 980 | 12275

26 Dec 2010 / #3

One way to get round this is to use the other name for Polish angel-wing pastries: faworki (pronoucned: fa-VOR-kee).

OP billionj 1 | 1

26 Dec 2010 / #4

YES!
Thank you very much!

Olaf 6 | 955

26 Dec 2010 / #5

faworki

This is the proper name.

krakus - | 12

26 Dec 2010 / #6

No it's not. In Cracow we call it chrust (hroost)

candyzo

17 Jan 2014 / #7

THANK YOU ... I remember the FaVORky as clear as day from 50 some years ago ... and was starting to think this was a false memory ... thanks for confirming my memory ...

Szczerbaty 4 | 49

17 Jan 2014 / #8

My wife makes chrupki coated with powdered sugar.