The Lowly Donut -- a Favourite Pastry
Whether you call them donuts or doughnuts, these sweet fried or baked pastries are a well loved treat. A good donut recipe is a staple for most home cooks and bakers.
The two most common type of donut recipes, in North America, at least, are the riing shaped donut and the filled donut, which is filled with a sweet filling such as jam, jelly, custard or some other yummy sweet thing. And let's not forget the donut holes! The kids are likely to think that's the best part of your donut recipe.
A Donut Recipe -- Good or Bad?
Donut Recipe #1: Yeast Donuts with Jelly or Glaze
1/2 cup lukewarm water
1 tsp sugar (first amount)
1/2 cup scalded milk
1/4 cup sugar (second amount)
1/4 cup shortening
1 tsp salt
c 1/4 to 3 1/2 cups sifted flour
1 egg
Method
Soak the yeast and 1 tsp sugar in the lukewarm water for ten minutes. Add the hot scalded milk to te shortening, 1/4 cup of sugar and salt and stir until it is lukewarm. Add this to the yeast liquid along with 2 cups of flour and the egg. Beat for five minutes. Beat in one more cup of flour until smooth. Scrape down sides of bowl, cover and let rise for two hours. Turn dough onto board floured with remaining flour. Knead 100 times.
Roll out to 1/3 inch thickness and cut with floured 3" cutter. Let rise uncovered until very light, at least one hour. A thin crust forms on the outside.
Slide the donuts into the hot fat at 375 degrees. As they rise to the surface and become a little brown, turn them over. Fry about three minutes to brown on both sides. Lift out with long fork, but do not prick. Drain then transfer to absorbent paper in a warm place. To sugar the cooled donuts, shake one at a time in a paper bag containing a little icing or granulated sugar.
Jelly Donut Recipe
Roll donut dough out to 1/4 inch thickness. Let rest five minutes. Cut out with 2 1/2 inch round cutter and let stand five minutes. Place 1 tsp tart stiff jelly or jam in center of half of the rounds. Top with the remaining rounds and seal edges firmly. Let rise uncovered for half an hour. Deep fry and drain as above.
Honey Glaze Donut Recipe
Add 1 1/2 tbsp honey to 3 1/2 tbsp of boiling water and 1 cup icing sugar. Stir to blend. Dip warm donuts into this warm glaze. Let cool and dry on cake rack.
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Donut Recipe #2: Fast and Easy Donuts
For those busy days
6 tbsp Oil
8 tsp baking powder
2 cup milk
1 1/2 tsp vanilla
7 cup flour
1 1/2 tsp nutmeg
Method
Combine the liquids in one bowl. Combine the dry ingredients in aother bowl.
Add one to the other.
Roll out, using very little flour.
Cut into shapes, or if you want to do this the really easy way, just drop spoonfulls into the hot oil.
Deep fry until golden. Roll them in confectioner's sugar when cooked, if desired.
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Fetching RSS feed... please stand byDonut Recipe #3: Pumpkin Donuts
Try these for a Thanksgiving snack
3/4 cup sugar
2 eggs
1 cup pumpkin, cooked and mashed, or canned
1 cup shredded bran cereal
2 3/4 cup flour
2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp pumpkin pie spice
1/2 tsp salt
Oil
Method
Cream sugar and shortening together. Make sure the mixture is light. Add eggs, mixing well after each one.
Add the pumpkin and the bran and mix well. Stand this mixture for two minutes. Sift dry ingredients together and then stir it into the pumpkin mixture, adding one half at a time.
Cover and chill for sixty minutes or until dough is stiff. Flour a surface then roll out the dough to 1/2 inch thickness. Cut with a two inch donut cutter.
Fry inpan with two inches of oil heatedto 375 degrees. Fry about one minute per side or until golden brown in color.
Drain your donuts on absorbent paper and then repeat with the trimmings to use up all the dough.
If you wish, dip the cooled donuts in cinnamon sugar or powdered sugar.
Donut Recipes -- an International Phenomenon
(according to Wikipedia)
Wherever you go, there they are.
Croatia and Serbia
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Okinawa (Japan)
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South Africa
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United States
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- alteredkat alteredkat Nov 3, 2009 @ 8:46 am
- My kids would love making their own donuts! YUMMY lens!...thanks!
and thanks for visiting my bottlecap lens...I appreciate your comments!
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- AppalachianCountry AppalachianCountry Oct 20, 2009 @ 7:55 am
- Fantastic lens. Thank-you for the recipes. We want to try #2. 5 stars*****
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- KathleenH KathleenH Oct 17, 2008 @ 12:28 am
- Those pumpkin donuts sound like a brilliant idea! I'll have to get cooking... Thanks for an interesting lens.
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- LisaKnowsTheSecret LisaKnowsTheSecret May 13, 2008 @ 6:21 am
- Wow, chocolate and doughnuts all in the same lens, you are a goddess, they are my two top choice foods in the whole world!. Thanks for a lovely treat,
Take care
Lisa
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- mulberry mulberry Apr 24, 2008 @ 6:32 am
- I've never made donuts, although I've enjoyed them on more than one or two occasions ;) With your recipes though I am certainly willing to give it a try. Thanks!
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