Sweet Milk Doughnuts Recipes

Steps:

• Heat oil in a deep-fryer or large saucepan to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).
• Whisk buttermilk, white sugar, and eggs together in a bowl. Mix flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt, nutmeg, and cinnamon together in another bowl. Stir buttermilk mixture into flour mixture until combined; add butter and knead until a soft dough forms.
• Turn out dough onto a lightly floured work surface and roll to 1/4-inch thick. Cut dough into doughnut shapes using a 2 1/2-inch doughnut cutter.
• Beat confectioners' sugar, margarine, and vanilla extract together in a bowl until smooth. Gradually add milk, stirring constantly, until desired glaze-consistency is reached.
• Working in batches, cook doughnuts in hot oil until golden brown, about 1 minute per side. Transfer cooked doughnuts to a paper-towel lined plate to drain. Dip hot doughnuts into glaze to coat.

Steps:

• Sift flour; measure, sift again with baking powder, salt and spices.
• Beat eggs; add vanilla and sugar. Beat well. Mix in softened butter.
• Add milk and sifted dry ingredients alternately. Mix into soft dough.
• Turn dough onto lightly floured board. Knead lightly for half a minute and roll out 1/3 inch thick. Cut with floured doughnut cutter. Remove trimmings.
• Lift each doughnut with a wide spatula and carefully ease into deep fryer pre-heated to 375 degrees. Put as many into oil as can be turned easily.
• Fry about or until completely brown on each side. Lift from fryer with a long fork. DO NOT PIERCE.
• Drain on absorbant paper.
• Serve plain, sugared or frosted.

Steps:

• Heat the milk until it is warm but not hot, about 90 degrees. In a large bowl, combine it with the yeast. Stir lightly, and let sit until the mixture is foamy, about 5 minutes.
• Using an electric mixer or a stand mixer fitted with a dough hook, beat the eggs, butter, sugar and salt into the yeast mixture. Add half of the flour (2 cups plus 2 tablespoons), and mix until combined, then mix in the rest of the flour until the dough pulls away from the sides of the bowl. Add more flour, about 2 tablespoons at a time, if the dough is too wet. If you're using an electric mixer, the dough will probably become too thick to beat; when it does, transfer it to a floured surface, and gently knead it until smooth. Grease a large bowl with a little oil. Transfer the dough to the bowl, and cover. Let rise at room temperature until it doubles in size, about 1 hour.
• Turn the dough out onto a well-floured surface, and roll it to 1/2-inch thickness. Cut out the doughnuts with a doughnut cutter, concentric cookie cutters or a drinking glass and a shot glass (the larger one should be about 3 inches in diameter), flouring the cutters as you go. Reserve the doughnut holes. If you're making filled doughnuts, don't cut out the middle. Knead any scraps together, being careful not to overwork, and let rest for a few minutes before repeating the process.
• Put the doughnuts on two floured baking sheets so that there is plenty of room between each one. Cover with a kitchen towel, and let rise in a warm place until they are slightly puffed up and delicate, about 45 minutes. If your kitchen isn't warm, heat the oven to 200 at the beginning of this step, then turn off the heat, put the baking sheets in the oven and leave the door ajar.
• About 15 minutes before the doughnuts are done rising, put the oil in a heavy-bottomed pot or Dutch oven over medium heat, and heat it to 375. Meanwhile, line cooling racks, baking sheets or plates with paper towels.
• Carefully add the doughnuts to the oil, a few at a time. If they're too delicate to pick up with your fingers (they may be this way only if you rose them in the oven), use a metal spatula to pick them up and slide them into the oil. It's O.K. if they deflate a bit; they'll puff back up as they fry. When the bottoms are deep golden, after 45 seconds to a minute, use a slotted spoon to flip; cook until they're deep golden all over. Doughnut holes cook faster. Transfer the doughnuts to the prepared plates or racks, and repeat with the rest of the dough, adjusting the heat as needed to keep the oil at 375. Glaze or fill as follows, and serve as soon as possible.

Steps:

• Beat the sugar into the eggs stir in milk and melted butter.
• Add the sifted dry ingredients.
• This dough is soft but will be light. Take 1/3 dough onto floured board and roll out to 1/4 inch thickness. Cut with floured doughnut cutter. Fry in deep hot fat for 3 to 4 minutes. Drain on paper towel.

Steps:

• 1. In large bowl combine eggs & sugar, blend carefully.
• 2. In small bowl combine milk, shortening and vanilla.
• 3. In another bowl combine flour, salt, baking powder and spices.
• 4. Add alternately the milk mixture and flour mixture to the egg/sugar bowl. Chill mixture for 2 hours.
• 5. Turn onto lightly floured board and roll out to 1/4" thick sheet. Cut with floured cutter and deep fat fry (365 degrees) until brown. Drain on crumpled absorbent paper.

Steps:

• Cream Fat, add sugar, add milk and well beaten eggs.
• Add 3 cups flour mixed and sifted with dry ingredients, then more flour to make dough just stiff enough to roll.
• With knife, toss about 1/3 of the dough on lightly floured board, knead slightly to make smooth.
• Roll thickness to about 1/2 inch.
• Use floured spatula freely to prevent dough from sticking to board.
• Cut with floured doghnut cutter.
• Fry in deep fat about 2 minutes, they should come quickly to the top.
• Brown on one side then brown on the other side. Turn but once.
• Drain over fat and then on absorbent paper.
• When partly cooled sprinkle with powdered sugar.