On Mar 21, 8:40*am, John Kuthe > wrote:
> On Mar 20, 1:45*pm, Cary Walker <Cary.Walker.
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> > wrote:
> > My grandmother, who was of German descent, used to make this wonderfully
> > delicious pastry that we called doughgies. I remember that she deep
> > fried it in lard in a huge cast iron frying pan. It went in as a flat
> > piece of dough and came out as this light and puffy piece of heaven. My
> > favorite topping was butter and salt but others would put sugar on it
> > too. Oh, my mouth is watering just thinking about it.
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> > Anyway, I have searched high and low on the internet for a resipe for
> > this and have only ever found one reference to it ('Uncle Phaedrus,
> > Finder of Lost Recipes'
> > (http://www.hungrybrowser.com/phaedrus/m0704M05.htm)) but the answers
> > given were just for fried dough. Close I think but not a hit. So I was
> > hoping someone here might have an idea of what I'm talking about and
> > maybe be able to provide a recipe.
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> > Anyway, thanks for any help you guys can give me.
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> > --
> > Cary Walker
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> Fried dough is a doughnut. Take it from an expert. I made doughnuts
> for 8 years, 6 nights a week!
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> John Kuthe...


People sometimes act like paczkis aren't doughnuts. They're a little
heavier and richer than normal doughnuts, but they're still freakin
doughnuts. And how the hell do they get an N sound out of that
spelling, anyway?