CATEGORIES
INGREDIENTS
- 9 oz (Aprox 2 cups) Flour
- 5 oz (Aprox. 1/2 cup 2 TBS) warm milk
- 1/2 oz (Aprox. 1 1/2 TBS) yeast
- 1 1/2 oz (Aprox. 3 TBS) butter
- 1 oz (Aprox 2 1/2 TBS) sugar
- 1 tsp lemon flavoring
- 2 pinches of salt
- 2 eggs
- 1 1/2 -2 oz (Aprox, 4 1/2 TBS- 6 TBS) diced dried fruit plumped in juice (raisins, blueberries, cherries, cranberries, dates, ect )
- Juice for plumping warmed in microwave (blueberry/ cherry, prune, v8 splash berry blend, apple, ect)
- Powdered sugar
- *Opt:cinnamon
- *Opt white sugar
- *NOTE: I'm not sure if I got my conversions right ( Remember I cook by eye not measurements! But this recipe came w/ measurements in oz's)
DIRECTIONS
- Put fruit in microwave safe bowl add juice to it then warm in microwave
- Dissolve the yeast in the warm milk.
- Mix the flour, sugar and the lemon flavoring, and stir in the milk and yeast mix carefully.
- Add the egg and the salt and stir the batter for several minutes until everything is nicely blended.
- Stir in the strained fruit.
- Cover and let rise until it doubled its volume, stir down and let rise again.
- In the meantime, heat the oil in the fryer up to 190°C (375F).
- Place paper towels on a plate to soak up the excess fat of the fried food.
- Stir the batter down.
- Now use a large spoon or an ice cream scoop to scoop out a portion, drop it into the hot oil and fry for about four minutes on each side or until brown. (It's important to gauge the temperature of your oil: too hot and the oil will scorch the outside but leave the inside of the balls uncooked.)
- Drain the balls on paper toweled plate
- Coating:
- Put powdered sugar in a zip lock bag
- Put fried dough balls into powdered sugar bag close bag trapping some air inside and shake to coat balls. Place on clean plate Repeat 'till all balls are done.
- *Opt: use cinnamon sugar to coat balls
- *Opt: Use cinnamon and powdered sugar to coat balls
