Fat Thursday

This week, I have written about the Polish tradition involving doughnuts

Pączki, photo courtesy of A. Blikle, famous Warsaw pâttiserie and one of very few old Polish brands to have survived WW2 and post-war nationalisation. When I lived in Warsaw, I loved popping in to their Nowy Świat branch (it’s a street lined with chichi boutiques and cafés)

Happy Fat Thursday!

Fat Thursday (Tłusty Czwartek), is the Polish equivalent of Shrove Tuesday, only instead of pancakes, Poles go into a frenzy of making, buying and eating Polish-style doughnuts, which, in their most traditional incarnation, are hole-less, glazed and filled with rose petal jam. Now doughnuts come in many flavours, are filled with ie matcha, chocolate or damson plum preserve, and glazed not just with sugar glaze and orange or lemon peel, but crushed pistachio nuts etc. Still, if you can avail yourself of the OG version, with rose petal jam filling, I suggest it is the first one you try