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Maier's Staff Preps Paczki All Night
To get ready for Paczki Day (Mardi Gras or Fat Tuesday), staff at Maier's Bakery starts the night before. They'll sell 5,000 paczki. But first, there's baking, powdering, and stuffing to do.
At 9 p.m. bakeries are usually quiet and dark, waiting for bakers to arrive in the wee hours of the morning.
But the night before Paczki Day is different. At Maier's Bakery, extra staff is bustling around, slicing strawberries, rolling paczki in powdered sugar and mixing blueberry, lemon and other fillings. Racks and racks filled with trays and trays of naked paczki await their sugaring and filling, all the while more dough is rising.
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Earlier: Bakeries in the Niles-Morton Grove-Park Ridge area which sell paczki
Frank Silvio of Maier's says the bakery will sell 5,000 paczki on Paczki Day and the day before. Besides the fruit varieties, the come with whipped cream, custard, cannoli and chocolate-hazelnut fillings.
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Paczki, which are fried sweet dough pastries, are the traditional Polish treat to celebrate before the abstinence of the Christian Lenten fast begins Wednesday (Feb. 13 this year).
For those who want to take more of a New Orleans approach to celebrating Mardi Gras, or Fat Tuesday, Maier's also sells king cakes. They've got the traditional plastic baby doll baked inside, to confer luck on the person who receives that piece.
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