Here in Amish country they call this Fastnacht day.
Penn Dutch Folklore: Fastnacht
"Fasnacht Day," more properly called "Fastnacht," is Shrove Tuesday, the day before Ash Wednesday. This was the established beginning of the 40 days of fasting during Lent. It is a folk tradition dating to the Middle Ages, a Catholic custom that has survived in Protestant Pennsylvania.
On Monday, dough was put out in straw baskets for raising, then cut in squares and deep-fried in fat, not baked. Served with hot coffee at breakfast, the popular way to eat them was to split them in half and spread with honey. (Today they often come coated with confectioners’ sugar.)
In the old days, this was a chance for everyone to gorge on good doughnuts without reprise, for the lean days would now follow. And the proverbial "dunker" could dunk doughnuts to his stomach’s content. The making of fasnachts helped use up fat and sugar prior to fasting.
Adapted from the booklet PENNSYLVANIA DUTCHLAND by Robert Lash Robbins and Ralph R. Smith, and other sources.
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When i lived in Michigan we would always get Paczki's. Their Polish doughnuts. They used to sell them at school, may I loved those things.
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I'm trying to find a place that sells them down here, but I haven't had much luck.
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My kids are going to go whack on me if I do IHOP and the parade tonight. They'll think they have died and gone to heaven with so much fun on a school night.
Oh, yeah! Paczki Day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!11 Guess what I'm going to get on my way into school!
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Here in Amish country they call this Fastnacht day.
Penn Dutch Folklore: Fastnacht
"Fasnacht Day," more properly called "Fastnacht," is Shrove Tuesday, the day before Ash Wednesday. This was the established beginning of the 40 days of fasting during Lent. It is a folk tradition dating to the Middle Ages, a Catholic custom that has survived in Protestant Pennsylvania.
On Monday, dough was put out in straw baskets for raising, then cut in squares and deep-fried in fat, not baked. Served with hot coffee at breakfast, the popular way to eat them was to split them in half and spread with honey. (Today they often come coated with confectioners’ sugar.)
In the old days, this was a chance for everyone to gorge on good doughnuts without reprise, for the lean days would now follow. And the proverbial "dunker" could dunk doughnuts to his stomach’s content. The making of fasnachts helped use up fat and sugar prior to fasting.
Adapted from the booklet PENNSYLVANIA DUTCHLAND by Robert Lash Robbins and Ralph R. Smith, and other sources.
You sure you didn't get this from "The History of Krispy Kreme"?
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I'll be flipping pancakes tonight at our church's annual Shrove Tuesday pancake dinner ....
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