Time for doughnuts
Childhood
The smell of doughnuts reminds me of my childhood, and teenage years (when there was a lot of great food) spent in the country at my grandma’s. She would always do everything we wanted, and so she would be happy to make doughnuts for all of the children in the street.
components
- 250 gr flour
- 100 ml milk
- 4 egg yolk (smaller)
- 15 gr yeast
- 35 gr butter
- 4 kašike rum
- 2 teaspoons vanilla aroma
- 35 gr sugar
- grated lemon peel
- frying oil
- powder sugar for decoration
- vanilla cream or jam
Instruction
- Combine warm milk, sugar and yeast and leave it for 15 minutes.
- Sieve the flour and put egg yolk in it, vanilla, lemon peel and rum
- Add mixture of yeast and milk into the mass, soft butter and some salt.
- Knead the dough for 10 minutes into a homogenous smooth ball.
- Roll the dough into foil and leave it for 30 minutes.
- After 30 minutes, form small doughnuts of desired size from the dough (they are usually made of 30g of flour). Dust flour over the worktop and leave the doughnuts for another hour.
- After an hour, fry them in oil on low temperature until they turn golden.
- Fill them with vanilla cream (use the cake spritz to put the vanilla cream into the doughnuts).
- Dust them with sugar and serve warm.
Were your grandmas great as well?
Where did doughnuts come from?
Doughnuts originate back in the times of Autria-Hungary (Graz area), but they soon spread in north Italy. Today, you can find a lot of texts about doughnuts originating from Poland, Germany, or some other country.
Originally, doughnuts are connected to some carnival celebrations when they were fried and sold in the street.
How did they get their name?
There are different stories about their name as well, some of them are that they got their name after an old German worl ‘Krafo’, which actually means pancake. Another one is that they were named after missis Krapft from an old Vienna pastry which it thought to have created this dessert. Among other, even some pharmacists are mentioned as possible creators of doughnuts.
Doughnuts quickly move to Vienna from Graz, and from there to Trentino, where it is said are the most delicious doughnuts today.
How to make the most delicious doughnuts?
Tirol doughnuts are the most delicious ones, and they remind me of my grandma’s doughnuts. Unlike hers, Tirol doughnuts are usually filled with vanilla cream. Italians are the best at making it, just remember the Brioche with vanilla cream… nom, nom. Doughnuts from my childhood were filled with jam or empty. In both cases they were dusted with some powder sugar.
This time, I had some raspberry sauce, so I combined the flavors.
Believe it or not, the dough can be frozen and used later. If you want to freeze it, roll it balls (small doughnuts) into flour, put it on a plate and in the freezer.
Modern children like modern doughnuts with some modern filling… such as Nutella.
