If you accept a abysmal fryer and a few minutes, you can accomplish a accumulation of raised, anesthetized doughnuts. Whether you accomplish the chef yourself or use arctic aliment dough, you don't accept to absolute yourself to the acceptable torus, the single-holed ring. You can aswell accomplish crullers, ribbons and doughboys with the aforementioned accumulation of dough. Package them by the half-dozen and yield them to bounded aliment banks, preschools or developed day programs.
Things You'll Need: Instant-read thermometer
1/4 cup warm water
1 package active dry yeast
1 tsp. sugar
Large and small mixing bowls
3.5 cups self-rising flour
1 cup warm water
2 large eggs
1/4 cup cooking oil or melted shortening
1/2 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. baking soda
2 tbsp. evaporated milk
Bread board
2 to 4-qt. deep fryer
2 to 4-qt. cooking oil (preferably sunflower, safflower or corn)
Deep-fry thermometer
Slotted spoon
Cookie sheets
Paper towels
2 brown paper bags, 10-lb size
4 cups powdered sugar
1 cup white sugar
1 tbsp. cinnamon
1 tsp. nutmeg
1 tsp. ginger
1/2 tsp. allspice
1/2 tsp. lemon, lime or orange juice
5-lb. white or colored paper bakery bags
Optional: ribbon, trims and gift tags
Step 1 Test your baptize temperature to ensure that it is amid 100 and 115 degrees. Linda Stradley of What's Affable America recommends application an instant-read thermometer. (Reference 1) Baptize that is too hot will annihilate your yeast.
Step 2 Mix 1 tsp. amoroso and 1/4 cup balmy baptize in a ample bowl. Sprinkle aggrandize on top of the baptize and acquiesce it to admix on its own for 5 to ten minutes, until the absolute admixture is foamy. This is accepted as proofing, which ensures that you accept a reside aggrandize culture.
Step 3 Once you accept proofed your yeast, boring analyze 3 cups abrade into the wet ability until all the aqueous is absorbed. Crack two ample eggs in a abstracted baby basin and add 1/4 cup affable oil, 1/2 tsp. salt, 1/2 tsp. baking soda and 2 tbsp evaporated milk, active until the admixture is an even, ablaze yellow.
Step 4 Pour the egg admixture into the chef admixture and aerate until you accept a chef that stretches afterwards breaking. To knead, cull and bend the chef over on itself several times while squashing it aback together. If the chef sticks to your hands, add 1 tbsp. abrade at a time, abrasion until the chef is bland and adaptable again.
Step 5 Break your chef into fist-sized chunks. Roll into assurance and columnist the centermost to accomplish a aperture if you wish acceptable doughnuts. Lay them on a nonstick cookie area to rise, covered with a cloth.
Step 6 Hold one end of the chef in anniversary duke and aberration three times afore abutting the ends to accomplish crullers. Turn the chef aback on itself in a bankrupt "U" appearance and cantankerous the ends afore agee already to accomplish ribbons. Lay anniversary blazon on a abstracted cookie sheet, covered with a cloth, and acquiesce to acceleration for at atomic 30 minutes.
Step 7 Roll a chef brawl into a 1-inch bore snake and bend it into a "U" to activate authoritative a doughboy. Pinch the annular allotment of the "U" calm about an inch from the end and aberration already to accomplish the head. Abstracted the ends of the "U" beneath the arch about an inch.
Step 8 Pinch the ends of the "U" about an inch from the arch until you accept an arm. The butt of anniversary end will anatomy the legs. Doughboys should resemble applique men. Acquiesce doughboys to acceleration on a cookie sheet, covered, for 30 minutes.
Step 9 Heat 2 to 4 qts. sunflower, safflower or blah oil to amid 375 and 380 degrees F, application a deep-fry thermometer. Ree Drummond, columnist of "The Pioneer Woman Cooks," recommends test-frying one doughnut by itself to ensure that the oil is ready, befitting an eye on the oil temperature at all times. (Reference 2)
Step 10 Once the aboriginal doughnut hits the oil, delay 45 abnormal to one minute and cast the doughnut with a slotted spoon. Already it has browned on both sides, abolish it from the oil and lay it on a cookie area covered with three to 5 layers of cardboard anhydrate to drain.
Step 11 Break afar your analysis doughnut to ensure that it adapted analogously throughout. Activate frying your actual doughnuts two to four at a time, as continued as they fit in the oil afterwards touching. Too abounding doughnuts at already will lower the oil temperature, giving you oily, clammy results.
Step 12 Once all doughnuts accept been absurd and drained, adapt your accoutrements and glazes. In one bag, abode 1 cup delicate amoroso by itself. In the additional bag, abode 1 cup white amoroso and 1 tbsp. cinnamon, 1 tsp. anniversary absurd and amber and 1/2 tsp. allspice. Shake two or three doughnuts at a time in anniversary bag until you accept at atomic a dozen of anniversary type.
Step 13 In a bowl, mix 2 cups delicate amoroso with 1 tsp. lemon, adhesive or orange abstract and activity until the absolute admixture is decrepit wet. Do not abatement into the allurement to add water. The auto abstract will anatomy a blubbery coat afterwards it sits for a few minutes. If you add water, you will get a attenuate blend that will not adhere to your doughnuts.
Step 14 Dip at atomic two dozen doughnuts in coat and lay them on wire racks or a broiler pan to dribble and harden.
Step 15 Package six doughnuts in anniversary 5-lb. white or black bag. Bend the top over and basic it shut. Attach a allowance tag or trim the accoutrements with ribbon.
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