Apple Cider Donuts

Step 13 Donut time!

Donuts! Yay!

Comments

[limpport]

These look fantastic. Nice Instructable!

[Binny the first]

I'm gonna try a sugar glaze with applesauce size bits of real apple or pineapple bits with this recipe. Also a fry Daddy has always worked best for me. I love their magnetic break away cord arrangement. No danger of knocking over that pot of boiling oil.Also someone suggested using lard? Isn't lard animal fat? I have always used vegetable shortening like Crisco and had good luck. Would anyone care to comment on that?? Also as I think of it I may put some fresh apple into my Squeezo with a fairly coarse screen and incorporate that into the raw dough. Humm so many possibilities with this recipe it makes me want some, but I am a sucker for a sugar glaze....

[spark master]

lard is animal fat rendered and filtered, (usually pig). So is Tallow,(usually beef), for the Jews it would be Schmaltz (rendered chicken fat).

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

[jbcexpress]

My Mom used to make these and she always used lard they have a wonderful flavor and not heavy or greasy. She also did a glazed and with tiny apple chunks in it.

[limpport]

Yeah, the lard bit was me. My family does farmers markets, and we make buttermilk and apple cider donuts in the fall. We make hundreds of dozens of donuts every fall, and have always used lard. It's really a matter of taste, but it does change the consistency of the finished product. Yes, lard is animal fat. But you know the general rule, the unhealthy things taste the best!

[kittyspacedog2]

I would use an actuall doughnut batter-dispenser and a thinner dough...pull trigger, dispense doughnut into oil

[konsho]

recipe looks great, the dough is in the freezer as i type this, but one problem i had was (following the recipe to the T) my dough was more like cake batter than dough. i had to add an entire extra cup of flour to get it to desired thickness.

[FilAmFighter01]

OK great reciepy for making donuts, but REALLY CONCERNED ABOUT FIRES cooking this way- OK to an extinguish oil fire on the stove on a large pan have a damp towel large- enough to cover the pan in the event of a fire! Use the large damp towel over your arms and hand then lay it over your burning pan!  If you have lid use that. If you have not ever been trained to use a fire extingusher get training first so you do not splash the burning oil. This will increase its surface area and make the fire spread quicker.  If you have an extinguisher keep it by the door- think fight of flight-Remember the the pneumonic P.A.S.S. Pull Aim, Squeeze, Sweep!
Cooking oils are consider now Class K fire and are more difficult to extinguish than years ago. I know I am 20 year carreer firefighter.

[Quester55]

Sounds & looks great, Just like mother use to make. Just a word of caution, When using a Gas Flame stove, You run the risk of FIRE, Keep a good supply of backing soda on hand to extinguish any flames or a good fire extinguisher. Would recommend using a good Deep Fryer or a Turkey Fryer outdoors Weather permitting. To everyone else, these donuts are Great.