SWEET RAISED DOUGHNUTS
Source of Recipe
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List of Ingredients
2 cakes yeast or 2 pkg. dry
2 c. milk
1/2 c. vegetable shortening
2 tsp. salt
1/2 c. sugar
2 eggs
7 c. flour (may need a little
more)
shortening (for deep frying in
electric skillet)
Recipe
Heat milk slightly. Dissolve yeast in 1/4 cup warm
water. Add to milk; add 3 cups flour (1 at a time, beating
smooth after each cup). Cover with a warm wet towel. Let
rise
in warm place until double in bulk (2 hours). Cream shorten-
ing, salt and sugar; add eggs and blend. Stir this mixture
into yeast sponge. Add remaining flour and beat well for
about
5 minutes. Then, may need to knead in 1 or 2 cups more
flour.
Rub top with vegetable oil and let rise again until double
in
bulk. Punch down and shape into a ball. Roll out on floured
counter about 1/2-inch thick. Cut with floured doughnut
cutter. Allow to rise about 45 minutes, then fry in deep
shortening heated to 380 degrees to 400 degrees until brown,
about 3 minutes.
Turn over and brown. Drain on absorbent paper. Glaze
with powdered sugar mixture.
Glaze:
1 lb. powdered sugar
3 tsp. cinnamon
1/4 tsp. vanilla (optional)
milk (enough to make a medium
glaze)
Let drain on rack. Makes 27 doughnuts, sometimes more.
One can makea cutter out of Number 2 Del Monte tin can,
removed the rim and used the center out of regular doughnut
cutter. Makes a larger doughnut.
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