Last night we had over several friends and all the missionaries for a "Tłusty Czwartek" party. In Polish "Tłusty Czwartek" means "Fat Thursday" and is celebrated the last Thursday before lent. Traditionally, it's a day where friends and family are invited over and everyone indulges in sweets (and other foods) which are forbidden during Lent, in which you fast for 40 days and are not permitted to eat these types of foods again until Easter. In Poland the typical "sweet" to mark this festival or celebration is called "pączki". The Polish reason for making paczki was to use up all the butter, sugar, eggs, & fruit in the house (because they were forbidden to be consumed during Lent, due to Catholic fasting practices). This treat is quite similar to a doughnut in the United States, but the ones here are filled with all sorts of delicious jams & jellies & cheeses, and the bread-dough is much more fluffy and not as greasy as a typical doughnut... and... there is no doughnut hole.
Katie, Michal, Nina, Kristina, Sister Ence, the Elders
Kinga & Sister Mann (who somehow missed our group photo)
We ordered a lot of paczki's and I'm glad we did because our guests decided to have a competition to see who could eat the most while they were there. I was sure that the Elders would jump all over this, but (drumroll please)... it turns out that our winners were: Nina & Kristina (who both ate 6 or 7 paczki each). They liked experimenting to see which flavor was going to be in the next one and they were our official taste-testers for us, letting us know which ones were the best.
Overall we had a blast with everyone that came and we can't wait to have another fun get-together at our home.
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That is my kind of party. Sad I missed it. :)
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