Paczki Day 2025 is on Tuesday, March 4, 2025: paczki websites?

Tuesday, March 4, 2025 is Paczki Day 2025.

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I think they are available on Paczki day, but you can try here:

Here's a good recipe:

Does anyone have a good recipe for homemade paczki?

Paczki (Polish Doughnuts)

Yield: 1 Servings

Ingredients

1 c sweet cream

2 yeast cakes

10 egg yolk

1 ts salt

5 tb butter

4 c flour

2 oz rum

6 tb sugar

Instructions

Recipe by: Mrs. Stalney Smialowski heat cream to luke warm. add salt

and egg youlks and beat till thick. cream butter and sugar. put these

into large bowl, add yeast disolved w/ 1 tablespoon sugar and nix

thoroughly. Add rum then flour and cream alternately and beat hard

till dough blisters. set in warm place to rise. punch down and let

rise again. place dough on floured surface and stretch and fill w/

pitted prunes. Fold over and cut into desired size balls. place on

floured surface and let rise. fry in deep hot oil turning once.

Paczki should be verry dark color before turning to ensure that they

are thoroughly baked. drain on soft absorbent paper. sprinkle w/

powdered sugar.

Describe Shrove Tuesday (pancake day)?

Shrove Tuesday is the term used in the United Kingdom,[1] Ireland,[2] and Australia[3] to refer to the day after Shrove Monday (or the more old fashioned Collop Monday) and before Ash Wednesday (the liturgical season of Lent begins on Ash Wednesday). In these countries, particularly Ireland, and amongst Anglicans, Lutherans and possibly other protestant denominations in Canada, this day is also known as Pancake Day or Pancake Tuesday, because it is customary to eat pancakes on this day.[4][5][6] In other parts of the world—for example, in historically Catholic and French-speaking parts of the United States and elsewhere—this day is called Mardi Gras. In areas with large Polish-immigrant populations (for example, Chicago and Detroit) it is known as Paczki Day. And in areas with large German-immigrant populations (for example, Pennsylvania Dutch Country) it is known as Fasnacht Day (also spelled Fausnacht Day and Fauschnaut Day).

The French also have a festival associated with pancakes (crêpes) which is held on February 2 each year. This festival is called Chandeleur and is a celebration of light (the name is derived from the word "chandelle" which also gave the English word "candle". The festival is known as Candlemas in English). It is thought that pancakes are associated to this celebration because of the solar symbolic of their shape and color. A traditional food for Mardi Gras are sweet fried dumplings, cenci, usually served in the shape of a loose knot (a 5cm wide, 20cm long strip of dough one extremity of which is passed through a slit in its middle.) In New Orleans the traditional food is king cake.

The reason that pancakes are associated with the day preceding Lent is that the 40 days of Lent form a period of liturgical fasting, during which only the plainest foodstuffs may be eaten. Therefore, rich ingredients such as eggs, milk, and sugar are disposed of immediately prior to the commencement of the fast. Pancakes and doughnuts were therefore an efficient way of using up these perishable goods, besides providing a minor celebratory feast prior to the fast itself [2].

The word shrove is a past tense of the English verb "shrive," which means to obtain absolution for one's sins by confessing and doing penance.[7] Shrove Tuesday gets its name from the shriving (confession) that Anglo-Saxon Christians were expected to receive immediately before Lent.[8]

Shrove Tuesday is the last day of "shrovetide," which is the English equivalent to the Carnival tradition that developed separately out of the countries of Latin Europe. In countries of the Carnival tradition, the day before Ash Wednesday is known either as the "Tuesday of Carnival" (in Spanish-speaking countries, "Martes de Carnaval," in Portuguese-speaking countries, "Terça-feira de Carnaval", in German "Faschingsdienstag") or "Fat Tuesday" (in Portuguese-speaking countries "Terça-feira Gorda", in French-speaking countries, "Mardi Gras," in Italian-speaking countries, "Martedì Grasso"). In Estonian, Mardipäev.

The term "Shrove Tuesday" is not widely known in the United States,[9][10] especially in those regions that celebrate Mardi Gras on the day before Ash Wednesday.