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Grandma Scanlan's Potato Doughnuts Recipe

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Ingredients:  
Ingredients:  
1 Tbsp yeast
1/4 cup warm water
1 cup potato water
3/4 cup sugar
1 cup mashed potatoes
6 cups flour
1/2 tsp nutmeg
1/2 cup butter
2 eggs
Directions:
Directions:
1. Mix together yeast, warm water, potato water, sugar, and 1 cup of flour. Set until bubbly (yeast dissolved).

2. Add mashed potatoes, 5 cups of flour, nutmeg, butter, and eggs. For flour, add 3 cups, stir with beater, then add the last 2 cups and sir with dough hook.

3. Mix well and knead more flour in if needed. The dough should be light and a little sticky.

4. Let rise to double in bowl.

5. Roll out 1/3 inch thick on floured board and cut out. Place on cookie sheet and let rise again.

6. Fry in hot canola oil 2.5 inches deep. Grandma always turned her doughnut over as soon as she put them into the oil, then let each side brown.

7. Roll in sugar after doughnuts are cool or frost with powdered sugar frosting.
Number Of Servings:
Number Of Servings:
30
Preparation Time:
Preparation Time:
20

 

 

 

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