Bakeries Stocking Cases With Paczki For Fat Tuesday
You can get the traditional Polish fried pastries with fruit and custard fillings through Fat Tuesday, Feb. 12, at Bennison's and Tag's Bakery in Evanston.
The cases at Bennison's Bakery, 1000 Davis St., are already filled with fluffy paczki, a sweet Polish pastry typically eaten before the Christian observance of Lent. While paczki are traditionally filled with fruit, Bennison's debuted chocolate praline mousse paczki last year. Traditional flavors include prune, apricot, cheese, raspberry, custard and apple, as well as fresh strawberry with whipped cream and banana cream. The bakery's biggest sales day for paczki is Fat Tuesday, or Mardi Gras, when customers line up to buy the pastries as a sendoff before the Catholic Lenten fast begins on Ash Wednesday, which falls next Wednesday, Feb. 13. Tag's Bakery, at 2010 Central St., will also be selling paczki, beginning this Friday Flavors at Tag'…
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