Ken Elleson, owner of Elleson's Bakery, places the sliced paczki dough on screens for frying Monday, Feb. 28, 2022, in the kitchen of the bakery in Sycamore. Elleson and members of his family will be working all night making the paczkis from scratch to be ready at 5 a.m. tomorrow for Fat Tuesday. (Mark Busch - mbusch@shawmedia.com/Mark Busch - mbusch@shawmedia.co)
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