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Raised Doughnuts Without Sugar

A raised doughnut made without sugar, using sponge, butter, salt, and flour, then fried.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and flour are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 124,287 recipes. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

Raised Doughnuts Without Sugar

Ingredients

Directions

Make the dough

  1. Combine the sponge, melted butter, and salt in a bowl.

  2. Add flour gradually until the mixture is soft and moldable.

  3. Let the dough rise until very light.

Shape and fry

  1. Cut and twist the dough into shapes.

  2. Fry in hot oil until brown.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Butter + flourtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together124,287 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

Butter and flour barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 124,287 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Sponge
Provides the leavening and yeast-driven rise that makes the dough light.
Melted butter
Adds fat that tenderizes the dough and gives a softer crumb.
Flour
Forms the gluten network that gives the dough structure to hold its shape.

The step that matters

Let the dough rise until very light. Under-proofing leaves the doughnuts dense and heavy, while over-proofing can cause them to collapse or absorb excess oil during frying. The dough should be visibly airy before shaping.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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