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Pączki

Name: Pączki
Total time: 150 min
Yield: Serves 8
Cuisine: Poland
Ingredients: 500g Bread flour; 2 tsp Dry yeast; 200ml Milk; 4 Egg Yolk; 60g Sugar; 60g Butter; 1 tbsp Rum; 150g Rose Petal Jam (or plum jam); To taste Oil for frying; To taste Powdered sugar

Dessert

⏱ 150 min

👥 Serves 8

Difficulty ⭐⭐⭐

Fried doughnuts filled with rose-petal jam — essential for Poland's carnival season.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Pączki are traditional fried doughnuts eaten in huge numbers on Tłusty Czwartek (Fat Thursday), the last Thursday of Poland's carnival season, when long lines form at pączki shops all over the country. Yeast dough is rounded and fried crisp in lard or butter, filled with rose-petal jam (the traditional flavor) or plum jam, and topped with icing or candied orange peel.

🌆 Where it's eaten: On the morning of Fat Thursday, a long line forms outside a pączki shop and people scramble to buy them the moment it opens.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 8)

Bread flour 500g
Dry yeast 2 tsp
Milk 200ml
Egg Yolk 4
Sugar 60g
Butter 60g
Rum 1 tbsp
Rose Petal Jam (or plum jam) 150g
Oil for frying To taste
Powdered sugar To taste

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Warm the milk to body temperature, dissolve the yeast and a little sugar, and leave 10 minutes until foamy.
Mix and knead the bread flour, egg yolks, butter, rum, and yeast mixture into a smooth dough.
Let rise 1 hour until doubled, shape into balls, and rise another 30 minutes.
Fry in 170°C oil until golden on both sides.
Once cool, pipe in jam with a piping bag and dust with powdered sugar.

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