2007-01-20 06:32:13 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Food & Drink ➔ Ethnic Cuisine
The word "ponchiki" actually comes from the Polish "Paczki."
Here is the history of these doughnuts:
Traditionally, the reason for making paczki has been to use up all the lard, sugar and fruit in the house, which are forbidden during Lent. They are eaten especially on Fat Thursday, the last Thursday before Lent (Polish: Tłusty czwartek, not to be confused with Fat Tuesday). Polish immigrants have popularized this type of doughnut in some parts of the United States, especially in Metro Detroit, where the word is often pronounced [puntʃki]. Here, prunes are considered the traditional filling, but many others are used as well, including lemon, strawberry, Bavarian cream, and raspberry. Due to French influence, paczki are eaten on Mardi Gras (Fat Tuesday) rather than on Fat Thursday. In the Polish community in Hamtramck, a Detroit enclave, an American-style Paczki Day Parade is organized annually on Mardi Gras (also known as Paczki Day in the region).
Meanwhile, Polish Jews fried pączki (Yiddish: פּאָנטשקעס , pontshkes) in oil, and ate them on Hanukkah; this custom was imported to Israel and spread to other Jews, who know them by their Modern Hebrew name, סופגניות, sufganiyot (singular: סופגניה, sufganiyah).
In Russian cuisine, the word "pączki" transformed into "pyshki" (especially in St. Petersburg) and "пончики", ponchiki. The latter may refer to both "paczki" and "pirozhki". In Ukrainian cuisine they are called "пампушки", pampushky.
A paczek is a deep-fried piece of dough shaped into a flattened sphere and filled with jam or other sweet filling. A traditional filling is marmalade made from fried rose buds. Fresh paczki are usually covered with powdered sugar, icing or bits of fried orange zest.
In German, they are called Berliner or Krapfen.
In Lithuanian cuisine they're called spurgos.
2007-01-20 07:15:37 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Fortune cookie is not an authentic chinese dessert. In fact, ive never tried them before, i think they are available only in the US? Some desserts with a history are mooncake, which we eat during mooncake festival. Its not an everyday sort of dessert and is usually available within the mooncake festival. It contains lotus seeds paste and comes with or without egg yolks. Personally, i prefer the snow-skin lotus paste mooncake without yolks. It was first made a long time ago, and notes were placed in the mooncake (like the fortune cookie idea) so that communication could take place without the enemies intercepting these notes. Another one is tangyuan which i love! By far, its the easiest to make too. Its like a little rice ball with sesame or peanut filling inside which you eat along with peanut soup. im not really sure what u mean by history though, whether you're referring to desserts which have been around for some time or desserts which have their own story. if u're talking about desserts which have been around for some time, my fav ones are bird nest soup, peanut paste, xiao long bao.
2016-05-24 01:15:26 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Polish Ponchiki
2017-01-12 19:15:38 · answer #3 · answered by kier 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋