| CATEGORY |
CUISINE |
TAG |
YIELD |
| Grains, Dairy |
|
New, Text, Import |
1 |
Servings |
INGREDIENTS
| 1 |
pk |
Yeast |
| 1/4 |
c |
Sugar |
| 2 |
tb |
Butter |
| 1 |
|
Whole vanilla bean, split in half, scraped,; bean reserved |
| 1 1/4 |
c |
Milk |
| 5 |
c |
Flour |
|
1 |
cup sugar glaze |
|
1 |
cup chocolate glaze |
|
1 |
cup butterscotch glaze |
INSTRUCTIONS
Preheat the fryer. In a sauce pan, combine the milk and vanilla bean
together. Bring the milk up to a simmer, remove from the heat and cool the
milk to 85 degrees. Using an electric mixing bowl, combine the yeast,
sugar, butter and vanilla scrapings together. Remove the bean from the milk
and whisk into the yeast and sugar mixture. Dump the flour mixture into the
yeast mixture. Using a dough hook, on low speed, beat the dough until
incorporated. Increase the speed and continue beating until the dough is
formed and starts to climb up the dough hook, about 2 minutes.~
Place the dough in a lightly greased bowl and cover. Place the dough in a
warm place and let the dough to rise until double in size, about 1 hour.
Turn the dough out onto a floured surface. Roll the dough out into 1/2-inch
thickness. Cut half the dough out into squares. Cut the remaining dough
into 1-inch strips. Cut the strips in half. Braid two strips together,
sealing each end tightly. Let the doughnuts rise until double in size,
about 20 minutes. Fry the doughnuts for 1 minute on each side. Remove from
the fryer and drain on a paper-lined plate.
Yield: about 2 dozen
VARIOUS FILLINGS AND TOPPINGS
1 cup pasty cream, in a small pastry bag with round tip
1 cup blueberry preserves, in a small pastry bag with round tip
Powdered sugar in shaker
Place the doughnuts on a wire baking rack. Fill 1/3 of the doughnuts with
pastry cream, 1/3 plain and 1/3 with preserves. Glaze the cream doughnuts
with the chocolate and the blueberry doughnuts with the sugar glaze. glaze
the plain doughnuts with the butterscotch glaze. Place the doughnuts on a
platter and garnish with powdered sugar.
Recipe By :ESSENCE OF EMERIL SHOW#EE2390
Posted to MC-Recipe Digest V1 #300
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 07:35:47 -0500
From: Meg Antczak <meginny@frontiernet.net>
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