🇵🇱 How to Make Pączki

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🛒 Ingredients

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• 500g strong flour
• 50g sugar
• 7g instant yeast
• 250ml warm milk
• 4 egg yolks
• 80g butter, melted
• 2 tbsp spirit or rum (stops them soaking up oil)
• rose jam or plum butter
• oil for frying, icing sugar

👩‍🍳 Method

1. Make a soft, enriched dough with everything except the jam and oil. Knead 10 min — it will be sticky and that is correct.
2. Prove 1 hr until doubled.
3. Roll to 1.5cm, cut rounds, and prove again 30 min on a floured tray. Under-proved pączki are dense.
4. Fry at 175°C. Put them in top-side down, covered, for 90 seconds, then uncovered on the other side. The lid is what makes them puff.
5. The pale ring around the middle is the mark of a properly fried pączek.
6. Cool slightly, then pipe jam into the side. Icing sugar or a lemon glaze over.