{"id":8448,"date":"2026-02-18T21:35:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T21:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/princetonillinois.com\/?p=8448"},"modified":"2026-02-18T21:35:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T21:35:06","slug":"photos-illinois-valley-celebrates-fat-tuesday-with-traditional-paczki-treat-shaw-local","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/princetonillinois.com\/?p=8448","title":{"rendered":"Photos: Illinois Valley celebrates Fat Tuesday with traditional Paczki treat &#8211; Shaw Local"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"robot-feature-image\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com\/shawmedia\/34QQ2NCIR5DC3GFXJNEAY4WT4I.jpg?w=860&#038;ssl=1\" \/><br \/>Fat Tuesday was celebrated in the Illinois Valley with Spring Valley Bakery and Bobaluk&#x27;s selling paczkis. Paczki\u2019s are\u00a0rich, deep-fried Polish doughnuts traditionally filled with fruit preserves like plum or rose hip jam, and topped with powdered sugar or glaze. The pastries date back to the 1700&#x27;s when bakers in Poland would use up their sugars, jellies and other items for the treats prior to Lent. <br \/>Got a news tip? Email <a href=\"mailto:ntnewsroom@shawmedia.com\">ntnewsroom@shawmedia.com<\/a><br \/>Copyright \u00a9 2026 Shaw Local News Network<br \/>Copyright \u00a9 2026 Shaw Local News Network<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiZ0FVX3lxTE9qemZYWjNBdzUxX3FucXo5eDgzaUJxLS1oZFFwSjlQNWI3amp2UHpPUXI3OHp5YXB6QkFUQ2dkT3hnQlplZVBJNnFadlc0Y3FzeG80LWl2Y2p2VDRPT3UxYzAzX3lZRVk?oc=5\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fat Tuesday was celebrated in the Illinois Valley with Spring Valley Bakery and Bobaluk&#x27;s selling paczkis. Paczki\u2019s are\u00a0rich, deep-fried Polish doughnuts traditionally filled with fruit preserves like plum or rose hip jam, and topped with powdered sugar or glaze. The pastries date back to the 1700&#x27;s when bakers in Poland would use up their sugars, jellies and other items for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/princetonillinois.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/princetonillinois.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/princetonillinois.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princetonillinois.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princetonillinois.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/princetonillinois.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/princetonillinois.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princetonillinois.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princetonillinois.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}