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From: Cindy Hamilton <chamilton5280@invalid.com>
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Subject: Re: Recipes on gopher space
Date: Mon, 5 May 2025 11:22:01 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2025-05-05, Daniel <me@sc1f1dan.com> wrote:
> Dave Smith <adavid.smith@sympatico.ca> writes:
>
>> On 2025-05-04 7:04 p.m., Jill McQuown wrote:
>>> On 5/4/2025 4:47 PM, songbird wrote:
>>
>>>>    the old fashioned cake donuts are the only kind i really
>>>> like.  fresh fried and still crispy is the way to have them
>>>> and in the fall those are often made with apple cider which
>>>> would be the first way i had them when i was a rather young
>>>> kid.
>>>>
>>> Cake donuts that are baked or donuts that are fried?
>>> https://www.tastingtable.com/1359522/cake-donuts-difference-baking-frying/
>>> 
>>
>> Proper cake donuts are fried. There are two basic types of
>> donuts. There are yeast risen and there are cake donuts which use
>> baking powder for leavening.  Yeast risen donuts can be very good. It
>> is hard to beat a really fresh honey donut,  or jelly
>> filled. Personally, I prefer cake donuts.
>
> During my navy years, I had befriended one of the cooks on my ship. He
> specialized on bakery. And one night I stopped by the bake shop to shoot
> the shit and he asked me if I wanted donut holes. I helped him cut
> donuts  with his cutter as he was removiung trays of risen dough from
> the holder thing. We placed the donuts for one more rise  and sat  the
> holes to the side. And then fried the holes while the donuts rose.
>
> They were ridiculous. Never had such fresh donuts in my life. Right out
> of the oil.
>
> I continue to look up 'cake donuts' and they all seem to be the dense
> type of round donut. So I turned to chatgpt and it told me that I'm
> likely referring to sour cream donuts.
>
> So looking up a few recipes yielded closer to what I'm looking for.
>
> I will experiment on the  sour cream donuts and see if it yields what
> I'm looking for.
>
> https://simplyhomecooked.com/old-fashioned-sour-cream-donuts/
>
> I'll report my findings in a few days.

If your transcendental donuts were made from "risen dough", then
they were yeast donuts, not cake donuts.  Cake donuts do all their
rising in the fryer.

-- 
Cindy Hamilton