As of: February 13, 2024, 8:02 a.m
By: Carina Blumenroth
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Grandma’s recipes bring back many memories.
In keeping with the carnival season, bakeries serve donuts.
This way you can make pastries just like grandma did.
It will soon be time for fancy dress in kindergartens and schools – Carnival is coming up.
Colorful snacks should not be missing.
Maybe cute mini Americans are something for you?
With the colorful decoration you have a creative task for children.
Adults are usually happy about creations with eggnog.
For example, a juicy eggnog cake is a good idea.
If you're looking for something for the whole family, why not bake grandma's doughnuts?
Donuts according to grandma's recipe: You need these ingredients
Especially at carnival time, you can buy donuts in a wide variety of creations.
However, you can also bake the delicious pastries yourself.
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The following ingredients correspond to approximately 15 servings.
580g flour
25g fresh yeast
40g sugar
2g salt
240 ml milk
80g soft butter
Optional: Zest from a lemon
3 eggs
1 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
1.5 L oil – do not add to the raw dough
1 jar of jam – do not add it to the raw dough
Optional: some rum flavor
To taste: Cinnamon and sugar for rolling – do not add to the raw dough
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A pastry with many names – what you can order where in Germany:
Berliner (short for Berlin pancakes): This is how you order, for example, Lower Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland and Baden-Württemberg.
There may be regional differences.
Pancakes: That's what they say in Berlin and other eastern German states, informs the
Society for the German Language eV
.
Berlin pancake: The long form is used in Schleswig-Holstein, in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and on the Swiss border.
(Berliner) Ballen: You hear that in the Ruhr area.
Krapfen: This is what the pastry is called in Bavaria and southern Lower Saxony.
Kräppel: The name can be found in Central Germany.
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Step-by-step preparation of the donuts
Mix the milk, sugar, yeast and about a third of the flour together.
Let the dough rest in a warm place for a quarter of an hour.
Then add the remaining ingredients to the bowl.
Knead the mixture with the mixer (use the dough hook) for ten minutes.
A smooth dough should then be created.
Form the dough into a large ball.
Cover this with a cloth.
You should let the dough ball rise for around 45 minutes.
Tip: You have given the dough enough time to rest when it has roughly doubled in volume.
You can now shape dough pieces from the risen dough as you wish.
If you have worked with the information above, you will get around 15 portions.
Place the small pieces of dough on a floured baking sheet with a little distance between them.
Then a little patience is required again, let the donuts rest for around ten minutes.
In the meantime, you can fill a large pot with oil and heat it up.
Depending on the size of the pot, you can place two to three pieces of dough face down into the hot oil.
Briefly place the lid on the pot and let the pastries fry for two to three minutes.
Then turn the donuts over.
Take the finished donuts out of the oil and let them drain on a cake rack or kitchen paper.
You can fill the cooled donuts with jam using a piping bag.
If desired, drizzle the top of the pastry with cinnamon and sugar.
Alternatively, you can also use powdered sugar.
Bon appetit.
Tip: Heat the oil slowly.
You can test the temperature with a thermometer.
The oil should be around 170°C
have.
If you don't have a thermometer at hand, you can also use a wooden stick.
If bubbles rise on the stick, the oil is really hot, informs
simply-yummy.de
.
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