Three delectable paczki from Amadeus restaurant in Ann Arbor.
The sad truth in Ann Arbor is that the locally available paczkis are usually no different than the big jelly doughnuts seen the rest of the year. I've even seen chocolate covered jelly doughnuts passed off as paczki. Fortunately, we have Amadeus to save us from sickly sweet offerings found at most other local bakeries. Their paczkis are small tasty morsals filled with real fruit and custards with a cake-like dough that's an order of magnitude better than the usual bland jelly doughnut dough. Amadeus makes a variety of different fillings from the traditional plum filling to a yummy custard, but they only make a small number each year so reserve early. (Or plan on a trip to Detroit.)
What Kitchen Chick forgot to note is that this is because the guy who runs Amadeus is actually Polish, as opposed to all the bakeries around here that make slightly bigger jelly donuts and call them "paczki".
Of course, he's probably also bemused that Americans are so fascinated with these things.
Paczki Day has only become a big deal in SE Michigan over the last 10-15 years or so.
Posted by: Joe | February 09, 2005 at 12:51 AM
Mmmmm... this brings back memories of growing up in Detroit, going to parochial school with a Polish pastor. Paczki Day was big, and they were the real thing. Mmmmm...
Don't even get me started about memories of Ann Arbor food...
Posted by: Dave | February 13, 2005 at 01:45 AM