I've been such a slacker lately. You would think that with all the time I've been spending at home that I would have made a ton of things and just be flying through my cookbooks. Nope. I actually had more work to do working from home. I don't get it. I tried to add exercise. I tried deep cleaning parts of the house. I tried reorganizing my craft room. I tried gardening. I tried making dilled carrots. (Those turned out great!) What ended up happening was a little bit of everything and nothing actually completed. When you are forced to stay around the house, house work never gets done! Haha. But I had to make some stuff. Dylan found a recipe from the National WWI Museum and Memorial for doughnuts and I have a tiny deep fryer so that's what we did one day.
This recipe makes 4 dozen doughnuts! I do not need that many doughnuts! I have no doubt Dylan could eat them all but since I can't even give them away at the office there is no way I am making that many. We decided to halve the recipe.
Super simple ingredients. Had to include my cute little spoon from the salt cellar.
Because this is a wartime recipe, it is so simple. Throw everything together and mix.Works great especially when you have help.
I'm a little concerned. The dough ended up extremely runny. I knew it was suppose to be a softer dough but I don't think we are going to be able to roll this out.
Nope. This was not going to roll. It was more like an ooze. So... we added more flour. Lots of flour. Probably too much flour. But...
...we eventually got a dough we could roll out. Yeah! I'm not certain how these are going to taste, though. Pretty heavy is my guess.
According to the recipe, the Doughnut Girls used whatever they could find to cut out the doughnuts. So did we. A round biscuit cutter, a jello mold, and a Japanese veggie cutter.
Cutting out doughnuts!
They looked 'browned.' I'm pretty certain they are fully cooked...maybe overcooked. I am not very good at the deep fryer. And it is too small! I probably should have just warmed up some oil in a large pot instead of spending hours frying 3 doughnuts at a time. Lesson learned.
We split the batch in half and covered half with a cinnamon sugar mix nd half with a vanilla glaze and various toppings.
We have sprinkles, flaked coconut, and crushed peanuts.
As expected the doughnuts were quite dense and heavy. The dough had too much flour and was probably over-worked. I may have also over fried them. Oh Well. The taste was great! I do not care for the super sweet donuts that many places sell. These are pretty plain and only lightly sweetened. These would be a fun base for different glazes and toppings!
My Rating: Good but I'll probably stick to the recipe next time. Doughnuts for Everyone!
Dylan's Rating: Heavy but I like these.
