A quick look online suggests that the last one vanished from Warsaw in 2018 because the franchisee couldn't make money on it.
It's a tough sell. People in corpo offices would never take a box of them to work, unlike in other countries. I suspect the ridiculous sweetness is also offputting for Polish tastes, yet it probably goes down incredibly well in the Arab world.
I wonder if there are any sugar free pączki to be bought anywhere in Warsaw, preferably with a different sweetener that makes the carbs not get absorbed or with small amounts of carbs. Cause it seems to me they have too much suger :(
(Had to enjoy something different yesterday and looked with sad puppy eyes internally while visiting Lidl a few days ago)
Why don't you have a go at making them? They're not that difficult to make and you only use about 50g of sugar to half a kilo of flour so they're not sugary. The issue is with the deep frying! However there are recipes for baked ones. Go on, have a go! :)
@Atch Wish I could, currently renting a flat in Warsaw for a month before joining the army. Unable to bake or make much with the things I have right here, not to mention fasting until easter... :(
(I have to find about more about how it all works tho, can allways search how to make them only so far)
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.
@Atch Thanks Atch! Who knows, maybe I'll meet some troublesome Irish lads during an excercise or something. Would make for a good story if they asked what that piece of paper is ;)
I got a notebook for recipes so I'll write it down no worries! Thanks for sharing!
I'll meet some troublesome Irish lads during an excercise or something.
I doubt it :) but you might meet them if you're sent on peace-keeping duties. Some Polish soldiers are serving with the Irish out there at the moment. You'll be under Irish command there though, so you'd best start practising your Irish dancing :))
Today was Tłusty Czwartek (Fat Thursday... is there a better translation in English).
Anyway, there's a funny youtube channel @mateuszglen, a comic and one of his characters is "ta jedna ciotka" (a personality type, middle aged female authoritarian know-it-all --- immediately relatable to anyone who's spent time in Poland)
For today he repurposed the old song 'Psalm stojących w kolejce' as 'Psalm tłustego czwartku'
in Greenpoint tasted some delicious home made samples
Was the flour imported from Poland? Flour is processed differently in Europe (inc Poland) and the US and it makes a big difference in the final product.
Given a choice, pączki are much healthier than Krispy Donuts :; But they are rarely "hand made" now, even within the Polish communities in Chicago or NY.
A few years ago on DW tv (German edition) they had short films about different restaurants in Berlin and one was Polish... I don't remember much about it though.
Also back in the 1980s there were some small places in West Berlin that catered to Polish people living there.... a friend who visited frequently talked about going to them for flaczki after a night of drinking...
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