The recipe is from a traditional Dutch cook book (it will tell you how to boil potatoes for instance) and all the recipes are from scratch. They are also in metric, as in grams and liters, but for ease of American cooking I translated the measurements to cups & spoons. Happy Eating!
Measure 4 1/2 cups of white or all purpose flour into a mixing bowl.
Add 1 tablespoon of salt.
Measure two cups of milk (or beer!) and warm 1 minute in microwave.
Add 2 tablespoons of yeast to warm milk/beer and mix well (with small whisk).
Add yeast mixture to flour and mix well with dough paddle.
Immediately add 1 egg.
And add the soaked raisins (but not the rum, use that to make more rum raisins).
When all is incorporated well, remove paddle and cover with hot wet towel. Put somewhere warm, like heating vent or wood stove (or closed oven with light on) and leave to rise for at least an hour.
Heat a deep fryer to about 170 degrees Celcius (middle setting, fries setting is too hot).
With two spoons scoop about a clementine's worth of dough, pat semi round and softly lower into frying oil. Do not put in too many at once, they need their space to turn. When the bottom is done, ca 3 minutes, they'll easily flip over, if there is enough room they'll even do it themselves. Enjoy!
The American Doughnut is based on this traditional dutch Fried Dough recipe, as with larger balls and hotter frying oil the center tends to stay sticky & uncooked so the solution was to remove that all together - the hole in the middle - and voila, the doughnut was born :)
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