Bohemian Raised Doughnuts
Recipe: #19929
July 04, 2015
Categories: Breads, Breakfast, Eastern European, Baby Shower, Brunch, Christmas, Fathers Day, Game/Sports Day, Mothers Day, Potluck Deep Fry, Vegetarian, Yeast Bread, Flour, Kosher Dairy, more
"From Libby's newspaper clippings. I haven't tried these yet. They used a compressed cake of yeast and I'm guessing on the flour amount. The old recipes never gave flour amounts. Drat them. 1 tablespoon of salt seems a lot to me; I would cut back on that I think."
Ingredients
Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (75.3 g)
- Calories 175.5
- Total Fat - 2.9 g
- Saturated Fat - 1.2 g
- Cholesterol - 21.7 mg
- Sodium - 337.6 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 32.1 g
- Dietary Fiber - 0.9 g
- Sugars - 8.2 g
- Protein - 4.9 g
- Calcium - 43.1 mg
- Iron - 0.5 mg
- Vitamin C - 0 mg
- Thiamin - 0.1 mg
Step by Step Method
Step 1
Blend yeast with 2 teaspoons sugar.
Step 2
Add lukewarm milk, sugar, and enough flour to make a thin sponge. Mix well and let rise in warm spot one hour or until sponge is bubbly and light.
Step 3
With a spoon, add eggs, lard, salt, nutmeg, and enough flour enough to make a thick dough. Let rise until doubled, about 1 1/2 hours.
Step 4
Put dough on a floured board. Cut into pieces smaller than egg. Flour each piece and roll around and around. Let rise until doubled.
Step 5
Just before dropping into hot fat, make a hole in middle of each by bringing the thumb and middle finger towards each other through bun and stretching a little.
Step 6
Fry. Roll in sugar.
Tips
No special items needed.