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Pączki Day--do Dunkin Donuts or Krispy Kreme count? [39]
Ah, bless you :) If you're going to join the army, then you might as well treat yourself and eat what you want just for a day anyway. You should have had a doughnut yesterday. However, there's still plenty of time before Lent, which doesn't start until next week. You could do it the Irish way and have pancakes on Tuesday next week. We don't have Fat Thursday. We do Shrove Tuesday, day before Ash Wednesday and have pancakes, not those spongey American things, but proper French crepes. Here's an easy peasy recipe for you, the one I use, and they're yummy!
110g white flour (use tortowa or type 460, a light flour for cakes)
2 eggs
200ml milk
75ml water (you mix it with the milk so the batter isn't too heavy)
50g butter
Whisk the eggs. Put the flour in a large bowl and make a hole in the centre of it (the flour that is, not the bowl!).
Gradually stir in the eggs with a wooden spoon, pulling the flour down from the sides.
Gradually add the milk, constantly stirring so it doesn't go lumpy.
Ideally you should leave the batter to stand in the fridge with the bowl covered overnight. But you can just use the batter straight away if you like.
Before you fry them, add the 50g of butter, melted, into the batter.
Fry them in butter, just a teeny weeny bit for each pancake.
Then serve them with sprinkled with lemon and sugar for a classic Irish style Shrove Tuesday pancake :) or spread them with jam, or Nutella or whatever you like.
If you want to have them the Polish way, fill them with twarog sweetened with vanilla sugar. Return them to the pan for a couple of mintues to warm through and smacznego.
Now, write down my pancake recipe on a little piece of paper, fold it up, put it somewhere and carry it with you for luck. It will save you from certain death :-)) Seriously though, best of luck with your army life. Hope it works out for you.