Donut Dough for Frying

The Polish word for donuts is pączki. The Yiddish word for donuts is pontshkes. They both sound a lot like patchke, the Yiddish word, colloquially, for things that are a pain in the butt. As in, making pączki and pontshkes is a patchke, albeit a rewarding and delicious one. Pontshkes and pączki are closely related—traditionally jelly donuts with no hole, they’ve now expanded to include every sort of cream, glaze, crunch, and sprinkle imaginable. Back in the day, pączki