paczek

plural paczki

1. singularsingular of paczki

   Each paczek is $2.50, or a half-dozen is $13.50 and a dozen costs $24.

   2021 February 13, Bryce Airgood, “Where to find paczki in St. Clair County”, in Times Herald, Port Huron, Mich., page 1A, column 1

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   Ricky Kauffman, 2, of Hamtramck wolfs down a paczek at the New Deluxe Polish Bakery in Hamtramck on Tuesday. Paczki are a tasty tradition in metro Detroit.

   2007 February 21, “Lent begins today: Fat, then fast”, in Detroit Free Press, volume 176, number 293, Detroit, Mich., page 1A

   A paczek, as one of the pastries is called, can contain up to 700 calories.

   2016, Edward McClelland, “[Michigan] Paczki Day”, in How to Speak Midwestern, Cleveland, Oh.: Belt Publishing, →ISBN, page 96

   When tasting, Forsyth also recommends following with a bite of a paczek.

   2020 February 22, Susan Selasky, “You can buy Detroit distillery’s paczki vodka”, in Lansing State Journal, volume 165, number 294, Lansing, Mich., page 1C, column 4

   A paczek is a sweet pastry, a filled doughnut but with the volume turned up to 11.

   2020 February 23, Paul Srubas, “Poonch-key? Pawnch-key? However you say ‘paczki,’ the traditional Fat Tuesday pastry sounds delicious”, in The Post-Crescent, volume 101, number 35, Appleton, Wis., page 7A, column 1

   Those fillings include traditional prune, or “plum butter” as the bakery more appetizingly calls it. It’s still the bakery’s most popular because of the “childhood nostalgia” — it’s the paczek everybody remembers eating as kids, he [Bartlomiej Kolatek] said.

   2020 February 26, RNS, “Before Lent begins, Paczki Day brings Chicagoans together”, in The Taylorville Daily Breeze Courier, volume 126, number 244, Taylorville, Ill., page 3, column 2