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Raised Doughnuts

Raised doughnuts made from eggs, butter, sugar, bread sponge, fried in lard.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and bread are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Raised Doughnuts

Ingredients

Directions

Make the dough

  1. In a large bowl, mix the eggs, butter, sugar, and bread sponge until soft.

  2. Let the mixture rise until doubled in size.

  3. Mold the dough again and flour a breadboard.

  4. Roll out the dough to ½ inch thick and cut into shapes.

  5. Allow the cut doughnuts to rise for 30 minutes.

Fry and serve

  1. Fry the doughnuts in moderately 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. Butter + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  2. Egg + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

  3. Egg + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  4. Butter + sugartop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together98,233 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  5. Egg + sugartop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together122,807 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

Eggs
Add richness and structure, helping the dough hold its shape while it rises.
Butter
Adds fat, which tenderizes the crumb and gives the doughnuts a softer bite.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and helps the doughnuts brown evenly in the hot lard.
Bread-sponge
Provides yeast-leavened structure and lift, so the dough rises before frying.

The step that matters

Frying in moderately hot lard. If the lard is too cool, doughnuts absorb grease and turn heavy; if too hot, the outside browns before the inside cooks. Moderate heat lets the centre set while the surface turns golden.

“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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