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Raised Doughnuts

Raised doughnuts are fried dough pieces sweetened with sugar and shortening.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 32% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 8,638 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Raised Doughnuts

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Mix the bread dough with sugar and shortening.

  2. Roll the dough thin.

Fry

  1. Fry in hot lard until golden 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. Bread + sugartop 32% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together8,638 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Bread dough
Forms the structure and airy, tender crumb of the doughnut.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and helps the surface brown during frying.
Shortening
Adds fat that tenderizes the dough and softens its texture.
Lard
Conducts heat for frying, browning and crisping the outside.

The step that matters

Frying in hot lard. If the lard is too cool, doughnuts absorb excess oil and turn greasy; if too hot, the outside browns before the inside cooks through. Steady, moderate heat gives a golden exterior and a fully cooked centre.

“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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