When I was a kid, there was about half a dozen farms with apple orchards near my house. Over time most of those farms were purchased and turned into strip malls that were paradoxically named after the farms they were built on top of. My favorite was TIce's Farm which became Tice's Corner, "an upscale, outdoor shopping center." I used to go there to buy apple cider. Now, I can go there to buy an apple computer at the Apple Store. I think there is something sadly comical about the fact that apples sold at Tice's Corner have been marked up some 2000% from the apples sold at Tice's Farm.
Anyway, across the street from Tice's Corner is an A&P which used to be Van Riper's Farm. All that remains of that farm is an almost unnoticeable gaudy mural near the ceiling of the store's entrance. I mainly bring this up because every Halloween, people from near and far would go to Van Riper's Farm and visit their awesome haunted house, climb on bales of hay and pick out the perfect pumpkin for a jack-o-lantern. Lastly, before leaving Van Riper's, you would end your visit by buying a bunch of freshly baked apple cider donuts.
Once you had the donuts, the obvious thing to do was to walk across the street to Tice's farm and get freshly made apple cider (on tap). Obviously, because both of these places are now strip malls, you can no longer do this. The farms are gone, the haunted house is gone, the fields of pumpkins are gone, the apple cider is gone and needless to say, the apple cider donuts are gone. In short, Halloween as I knew it, is pretty much gone. It's all rather upsetting. So, when someone emailed me this apple cider donut recipe at The Smitten Kitchen, I knew, for the sake of Halloween, I had to make it. And so I did make it. It was fantastic. Follows is what I did.
Anyway, across the street from Tice's Corner is an A&P which used to be Van Riper's Farm. All that remains of that farm is an almost unnoticeable gaudy mural near the ceiling of the store's entrance. I mainly bring this up because every Halloween, people from near and far would go to Van Riper's Farm and visit their awesome haunted house, climb on bales of hay and pick out the perfect pumpkin for a jack-o-lantern. Lastly, before leaving Van Riper's, you would end your visit by buying a bunch of freshly baked apple cider donuts.
Once you had the donuts, the obvious thing to do was to walk across the street to Tice's farm and get freshly made apple cider (on tap). Obviously, because both of these places are now strip malls, you can no longer do this. The farms are gone, the haunted house is gone, the fields of pumpkins are gone, the apple cider is gone and needless to say, the apple cider donuts are gone. In short, Halloween as I knew it, is pretty much gone. It's all rather upsetting. So, when someone emailed me this apple cider donut recipe at The Smitten Kitchen, I knew, for the sake of Halloween, I had to make it. And so I did make it. It was fantastic. Follows is what I did.
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You will need:
Apple Cider
1/2 stick butter
1 cup of sugar
2 teaspoons baking power
1 teaspoon baking soda
3-1/2 cups of flour (+ some)
1/2 teaspoon cinnamin
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/8 teaspoon ground nutmeg
2 large eggs
1/2 cup of buttermilk
A lot of vegetable oil
A donut cutter
2 Baking sheets
2 large bowls
An electric mixer
A deep frying pan
A candy thermometer
Wax paper
Misc kitchen equipment
Apple Cider
1/2 stick butter
1 cup of sugar
2 teaspoons baking power
1 teaspoon baking soda
3-1/2 cups of flour (+ some)
1/2 teaspoon cinnamin
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/8 teaspoon ground nutmeg
2 large eggs
1/2 cup of buttermilk
A lot of vegetable oil
A donut cutter
2 Baking sheets
2 large bowls
An electric mixer
A deep frying pan
A candy thermometer
Wax paper
Misc kitchen equipment
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I am pretty sure you mean tongs, although flipping donuts with metal castings of Gene Simmons's tongue creates an interesting mental image.
Crisco is hydrogenated vegetable oil or in old days a blend of rendered fats. When they are all vegetable fat it is cotton seed and other oils. Cotton seed is nasty as well as the worst stinker canola. For those of you who can't taste it it is fine, for those of us who can it smells and tastes horrid.
Old fashioned lard may indeed make the things taste better. It is what gave McDonald's fries all their taste years back, until Health freaks align with Vegans and Jews ganged up on them and forced them to stop using beef tallow. Of Course a Kosher Jew should never be seen in a McDonald's since none of it is kosher except (after modification) the French Fries. Heck my friends, (all cat-licks and X-ians), would say no one does. I know my cardiologist says no no no.
but these and another donut recipe I found are just too evil to ignore. I make fried dough anyway (occasionally), so this needs to come online soon, maybe in fall.
thanks fer the great instructable
Here, we usually call ciders like Strongbow hard ciders to distinguish them. Not sure about this recipe. If it was boozy cider, that would make these donuts even better!
I can't wait to try this.
Tip:If you just want to make donut holes, you don't need to bother with the freezing, just grab two spoons and do like you would when making cookies. Who cares if they aren't perfectly symmetrical spheres? You're just going to eat them anyway.
Those were the days! And your donuts look awesome! Wish I was there to taste them. I'll have to try an egg-free version and hope for the best.
Later. The Mother
However, I'm in the midst of it, people.
My wife is getting bombarded by her friends who have/are converting to vegan/vegetarianism. I don't get it with people who think animal products are "unhealthy", or worry about "compassion" for animals that are created SPECIFICALLY by nature for their herd/flock presence that allows other "predators" to be fed. Contrary to Vegan philosophy, humans are MEAT EATERS.
Do Vegans hate animals with claws and jaws? Do they have a distaste for the nature channels featuring amazing shows on lions, bears, tigers, or even the shrew which eats almost its weight in bugs and worms daily? (Note: the shrew has the highest brain size to body weight ratio of ALL MAMMALS, including humans). The amazing meat-eating shrew.
Just think if all chickens, cows, turkeys, fish, etc were protected from being eaten. Hinduism aside, we'd be overrun with animal diseases, millions upon millions of these "food source" creatures eating up our own "flora" resources, and eventually, we'd have to KILL THEM so the Vegans could eat what plant life was left.
I get it about natural animal raising and bringing to market. Free range, no antibiotics, that's all good. But "oooh, I can't eat that because you fried turkey bacon in that pan yesterday" is going too far. I'm not talking about food allergies here.
and, I'm saying this with love for my veggie eating friends. We grow the BEST vegetables and fruit - not for distribution, but for home/friend/neighbor benefits. I wish they would eat some tasty natural meat, so I can go out for dinner with them without feeling like a "jerk" ordering something with cheese on it, even if the cheese is unpasteurized. Good grief.
Meat is a very energetically inefficient way to get calories and nutrients into you. It also requires a tremendous amount of water (to grow the feed crops, etc) The extra cost is not necessarily reflected in the market price of the meat because the vast majority of livestock is fed on corn grown using government subsidies (also why corn syrup and numerous unholy corn-derived chemicals are so cheap).
At the same time, some nutrients like iron are pretty hard to get elsewhere.
Getting overrun by chickens is not something you need to worry about. Did you know that most of the animals you eat are given antibiotics in their feed whether or not they are sick? Witnessing a failure of modern medicine to keep infectious diseases in check due to antibiotic resistance *is* something you need to worry about.
And finally, pasteurization has nothing to do with how environmentally-friendly your food is, it just keeps you from getting botulism or E-Coli.
If your reason is compassion towards other creatures then consuming noxious chemicals or even chicken drumstick shaped tofu patties is not necessarily inconsistent.
On the other hand if your goal is to only be eating seeds and nuts to make you live forever then processed foodlike substances is not really sensible.
Food allergies are a whole different thing though.
Hi, are you saying that Ener-G egg replacer is chemicals? I hope not. It's from the natural food store.
I actually have an egg allergy, so I eat lots of vegan things. I've been vegetarian for many years in my life, but at this point I'm not totally vegetarian. If you're vegan, have you tried the Liz Lovely cookies? they're really good. :-)
Hot oil spill or fire is a life changing event (not in a good way).
If you really want to cook 'restaurant style', remember that the restaurant ranges also have BIG fire suppression systems.
I enjoyed your recipe, cant wait to try it out soon!
If you want them to taste even better, use lard. You can't get a better flavor out of a donut without using lard to fry them.
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