Re: Recipes on gopher space

On 2025-05-05, Daniel <me@sc1f1dan.com> wrote:

Dave Smith <adavid.smith@sympatico.ca> writes:
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On 2025-05-04 7:04 p.m., Jill McQuown wrote:

On 5/4/2025 4:47 PM, songbird wrote:

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   the old fashioned cake donuts are the only kind i really
like.  fresh fried and still crispy is the way to have them
and in the fall those are often made with apple cider which
would be the first way i had them when i was a rather young
kid.
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Cake donuts that are baked or donuts that are fried?
https://www.tastingtable.com/1359522/cake-donuts-difference-baking-frying/
 

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Proper cake donuts are fried. There are two basic types of
donuts. There are yeast risen and there are cake donuts which use
baking powder for leavening.  Yeast risen donuts can be very good. It
is hard to beat a really fresh honey donut,  or jelly
filled. Personally, I prefer cake donuts.

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During my navy years, I had befriended one of the cooks on my ship. He
specialized on bakery. And one night I stopped by the bake shop to shoot
the shit and he asked me if I wanted donut holes. I helped him cut
donuts  with his cutter as he was removiung trays of risen dough from
the holder thing. We placed the donuts for one more rise  and sat  the
holes to the side. And then fried the holes while the donuts rose.
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They were ridiculous. Never had such fresh donuts in my life. Right out
of the oil.
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I continue to look up 'cake donuts' and they all seem to be the dense
type of round donut. So I turned to chatgpt and it told me that I'm
likely referring to sour cream donuts.
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So looking up a few recipes yielded closer to what I'm looking for.
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I will experiment on the  sour cream donuts and see if it yields what
I'm looking for.
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https://simplyhomecooked.com/old-fashioned-sour-cream-donuts/
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I'll report my findings in a few days.

If your transcendental donuts were made from "risen dough", then
they were yeast donuts, not cake donuts.  Cake donuts do all their
rising in the fryer.

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Cindy Hamilton