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  • Three cinnamon sugar-coated fried dough pastries (fastnachts) on a white plate with decorative red lines
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    Kinklings (1970s Church Cookbook Fastnachts Recipe – Eva Reeder)

    ByKara February 22, 2024April 5, 2026

    Fastnacht doughnuts famously took on the name “Kinklings” in Western Maryland.

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  • Traditional Polish paczki doughnuts with jam filling served on decorative blue plate with coffee mug
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    Pączki (authentic Polish Doughnuts for Fat Tuesday aka Paczki Day)

    ByKara January 25, 2023April 5, 2026

    [Note: I wrote this in 2023. Krakus is now closed 😔. An alternative shop in Baltimore is At the Polish Table. – k] I love going to Krakus deli on Fleet street. As soon as you step inside you’re greeted with the smell of the various sausages, which hang behind the counter. A small selection…

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  • Three sugared doughnuts on patterned paper with paper cup, vintage recipe from 1903
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    Unsurpassed Doughnuts, Elizabeth Staats

    ByKara December 10, 2017January 12, 2019

    Elizabeth Staats (1852-1933, Kent County) collected recipes – hundreds of them.  The collection started with a scrapbook Staats inherited from her mother Mary Griffith (1829-1892), whose original book contains handwritten recipes for food as well as things like soap and a “cure for cholera.” Staats finished that book before compiling the second book of over…

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  • Two golden-brown kinklings with cinnamon sugar coating and light centers, served with hot tea for Fastnacht celebration
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    Fastnachts Küchlie

    ByKara February 9, 2016April 5, 2026

    This is the original Fastnachts aka Kinklings post but if you’re looking for a superior recipe click here. “Today is Kinkling Day and the smell of hot grease and fresh kinklings permeates many homes. Some people say that for good luck some of the kinklings must be fed to the chickens. This is done in…

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