Fastnacht Day is also known as Fat Tuesday. The fastnacht production line at St. Cecilia Church in Lebanon, Pa., is making about nine thousand dozen Shrove Tuesday doughnuts. Traditionally, fastnachts were made by Pennsylvania Dutch housewives on Fat Tuesday to use up all the fat in the house before Lent. "Fastnacht" is a German word meaning "night before the fast." The heavy yeast-raised doughnuts are as much a part of the central Pennsylvania food landscape as chicken and waffles and whoopie pies. (Video by Dan Gleiter/PennLive)
