Old Fashion Doughnuts

I have had a real hankering for a decent doughnut. In the 1970’s when I stomped the streets of Saratoga Springs, Dunkin Doughnuts made a great fresh doughnut. I would go up to the Broadway store and grab a counter spot and have a chocolate honey dipped that was warm and so good that you wanted all of them. Today… sad to say that gas stations sell Dunkin Doughnuts and that beautiful big doughnut is some little dry crapper that has no value to your taste buds. So I am on an adventure to make a great old fashion doughnut that you can be proud to eat. Let’s Make Doughnuts

Doughnut Base Recipe

2.5 cups All Purpose Flour

1 cup Sugar

1 tsp vanilla extract

2 tbsp Butter

5 Egg Yolks

1 1/2 cups Sour Cream

3 tsp Baking powder

2 tsp Salt

Enough canola oil to float the cooking doughnuts in your fry pot. I use an 8″ round sauce pan as my fry-o-lator and it needs about 4 -6 inches of oil to make the doughnut project a pleasure to work with.

Place sugar,salt,baking powder, vanilla, butter and egg yolks in your mixing bowl and beat until you form a creamed mixture

Add sour cream

Reduce mixer speed and add flour.

NOTE: Dough is very sticky…. You will transfer it to a greased bowl and spray some addition grease onto dough then cover. Place in refrig for a minimum of 1 hour.

Roll out to ½ inch thickness. I have little pastry gauges to use that measure the thickness.

Cut out doughnuts using a 3″ cutter

Fry 340F

Fry 50 seconds on side then flip and continue to fry 80 seconds on side 2

Remove from fry oil and transfer to cooling rack.

Coat and serve.

Makes 14 about doughnuts

Now with all this scribed what will you top your doughnuts with… I am going for a cinnamon/sugar blend and/or powdered sugar on mine. After I honor the standard base recipe I am going to make some with other ingredients and perhaps some nuts added. I have walnuts, almonds and pecans in stock.  I might go for some caramel topping and perhaps an Apple cider doughnut base. The Apple Cider Doughnut recipe will be posted. It is a delicious treat too.