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Easy Donut Recipe

The Best Donut Recipe Taken From Mom's Old Recipe Box


Here is an easy donut recipe from Grandma's day for making delicious homemade donuts.

On a cold winter's evening, Mom would sometimes heat some oil or lard on the old kitchen stove and deep fry a big batch of donuts.

She used a ring-shaped cookie cutter to make the donut rings, but sometimes she would cut the dough into other cookie shapes for me as well. Almost any shape can be used as long as it's small enough to enable proper frying.

It was so much fun watching the little rings of dough bob about in the hot oil while they were frying, and the warm, crispy donuts tasted so good when done. Now, you can enjoy making them in your kitchen for your family.

Why Homemade Donuts Taste Best

Commercially available donuts are no match for Mom's old-fashioned kind. Recently, I purchased a popular commercial donut and examined its list of ingredients...

Enriched wheat flour, water, hydrogenated soybean and cottonseed oils, sugar, yeast, dextrose, calcium sulphate, salt, yellow corn flour, monoglycerides, guar gum, calcium propionate, wheat gluten, sodium stearoyl lactylate, sodium acid pyrophosphate, sodium bicarbonate, citric acid, ammonium sulphate, turmeric and annatto, ascorbic acid, azodicarbonamide, sulphites. Contains: wheat, soy, milk, eggs and sulphites.

Compare the above list to the few ingredients in Mom's donuts....

Flour, milk, eggs, sugar, butter, sodium bicarbonate, cream of tartar, natural spices and salt.

Quite a difference! It is easy to see why the homemade variety are not only better tasting but much better for us too. No wonder homemade tastes so delicious.





Easy Donut Recipe

This easy donut recipe is taken from Mom's old recipe box.

homemade donuts 1 Egg, 1 cup milk, 1-1/3 cups sugar, 2 teaspoonfuls cream of tartar, 1 teaspoonful baking soda, piece of butter the size of a walnut, 1/4 teaspoonful cinnamon (or nutmeg), pinch of salt, and flour enough to roll soft.

Method: Beat the egg and sugar together and add the milk and butter. Stir the soda and cream of tartar into the flour, dry; mix all together, with the flour and salt. Roll and cut into doughnut rings, and fry in deep fat. Lay them on brown paper to cool when you take them from the fat.

Enjoy eating them while they are fresh.




rose and cookbook Enjoy trying Mom's easy donut recipe. You will be proud to serve such a tasty treat to your family, especially one that you made yourself.


See Grandma's Best Donut And Cake Recipes




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