Faworki Recipe

Faworki are traditional Polish sweet crispy fried pastry in the shape of thin twisted ribbons, deep-fried and sprinkled with powdered sugar. Faworki are also known as chrust, chrusty, chruściki, angel wings. One of favorite Faworki recipe is Chrust Czyli Faworki. How to make it?





Chrust Czyli Faworki
Ingredients:
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 2 cups sifted all-purpose flour
- 5 egg yolks, lightly beaten
- 1/4 cup milk
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 tablespoon rum
- Flour for flouring board
- Oil or shortening for deep frying
- Vanilla Confectioners' Sugar

Directions:
- Cut butter into flour; add egg yolks and milk mixed with salt and rum. The dough should not be so wet that it will stick to the floured board. If too wet, add a little more flour.
- Beat dough against the board until bubbles appear, then set aside, covered, for 30 minutes.
- Working with small amount of dough at a time, roll out to a sheet 1/8 inch thick.
- Cut into long strips, about 1 inch wide by 4 inches long, cutting ends diagonally.
- Make a slit 2 inches long in center of each strip and pull one end through the slit.
- Heat oil to 350°F.on a frying thermometer.
- Fry only a few cakes at a time in order not to crowd.
- To fry in a skillet in a few inches of fat, brown first on one side, then on the other. When ready, drain on paper towels.
- When all are done, sprinkle with Vanilla Confectioners' Sugar.

Served as dessert, the Chrust Czyli Faworki comes from European culinary art. Enjoy this Chrust Czyli Faworki with your kin and friends!