| TRADITIONAL CARNIVAL DOUGHNUT
Our names are Tina Hribar and Lucija Bonisegna. We are a 8th grader at Maks Pecar school in Ljubljana Crnuce. We are 14 years old and we live in Ljubljana in Slovenia. Our recipe is called Traditional carnival doughnut and it is a recipe from Slovenia. Ingredients: 1 kg flour 6 dag yeast ? l milk ? l cream 10 yolks 1 egg 10 dag sugar salt orange (lemon) peel castor sugar little nutmeg 4 spoons rum 15 dag butter apricot jam frying oil Instructions: Sift the flour. Put the yeast in a dish. Mix the yolk, the egg and the sugar. Grate some orange or lemon peel. Grate some nutmeg. Warm up the milk or cream to make it lukewarm. From the flour, the risen yeast, the mixture, the milk and the cream make the dough. Put the melted butter into the dough. The dough for doughnuts has to be soft or else doughnuts are heavy. When the dough parts from the dish and the cooking spoon, cover it and put it in a warm place, to make it rise. Put the risen dough on the plank with some flour. Roll it out till it is 1,5 cm thick wit a model for doughnuts cut out circles. Put some jam on the half of the circles. With the other half of the circles cover the first half of them. Press the edges of both of circles with fingers. Press them hard, so that the jam can not leak. The jam has to be in the middle. Put the doughnuts on the plank with some flour . Cover them and let them rise. Put a lot of oil in a saucepan and heat it. Put the doughnuts in the saucepan and fry them until they are brown on both sides. If the oil is too hot, the dough will be brown too fast and the doughnuts will not be fried. Do not put too many doughnuts at once , because they must not be too close. Put the doughnuts on the strainer and sprinkle them with some castor sugar, when they are still hot. Summary (cultural background): That recipe is a traditional Slovene recipe for the carnival. People used to fry doughnuts like a long time ago. Countries have exchanged fruit and things like that. People added fruit to their doughnuts. So they made a better looking and tasting. But the first recipes for making doughnuts are from Gorenjska, from our country Slovenia. |
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