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Thursday, February 7, 2013

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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Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Customers Line Up for Paczki at Bennison's on Fat Tuesday

The Polish doughnuts are an annual treat.

"It's a special doughnut day," Katie Colino explained to her two children as they walked into Bennison's Bakery Tuesday afternoon. Isabella, 5, and Luca, 2, needed little persuading that the Fat Tuesday delicacy called paczki were worth checking out. The family hasn't made a tradition of paczki eating in the past, Colino said, but she thought it was a good annual ritual to start. Bennison's had a full house of customers waiting in line for the fruit-filled Polish pastries all day, according to an employee. The store's owner, Jory Downer, tweeted in the morning: "Paczki count as of 11:30: 3033!" According to the bakery's website, the pastries are traditionally eaten the day before Lent to use up the eggs and lard that wouldn't be allowed …

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