Cake Donuts Recipe
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Ingredients: 1 cup sugar
2 eggs
3 T. melted shortening
1 cup buttermilk with 1 tsp. soda mixed in
1/2 tsp. or less salt
1/2 tsp. vanilla
dash nutmeg
2 tsp. baking powder
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Directions:Mix all ingredients together. Add enough flour to make a soft dough. 3 and 1/2 to 4 cups. (I usually need more.)
Roll or pat out. Cut doughnuts with a doughnut cutter.
Gently gather dough scraps, press together and reroll to make more. (Cut carefully and use all space, because the less you do this, the more tender the doughnuts will stay.)
I fry in an electric fry pan at 400 degrees with a good brand of oil.
Drop gently into oil, fry until bubbles slow way down, then turn and cook the other side. Drain on paper towel or brown paper bag.
Makes 3 dozen. |
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Notes: This recipe was from the Little Cafe in Pillager that Grandma Amy Sandberg ran for years. It originally came from Emma Peck of Pillager, who went on to become head chef at Madden's Resort on Gull Lake.
Note from Lynn Sandberg Scearcy: I well remember making a batch of doughnuts every morning I worked at the cafe--once Amy was convinced I could do it myself! I added the frying directions from those memories. Our deep fat fryer was used ONLY for doughnuts. Amy would never consider using it for french fries, which would have meant changing the oil after each doughnut batch. I HATED to clean that darn fryer and drain the oil!
I really, really doubt that Amy ever put the nutmeg in....she hated that spice with a vengeance! She also never made anything but plain doughnuts, and would NEVER let me do any "doughnut balls", because we gently rerolled the dough to make as many as we could----but sometimes I would do a few cinnamon sugar versions.....Shake in a sugar/cinnamon mixture in paper bag to make cinnamon sugar version. I have often thought of this recipe over the years, and tried to recall it---I used to have it memorized about 55 years ago.....I never thought to ask if anyone had it. I am so pleased to have it now.
If you don't have a doughnut cutter (or wear yours out, like Lois did!) you can buy them at Amazon. There are cutters with a removable middle, or one piece types.
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