Fillozes (Portuguese Doughnuts)

Joined Jan 2003
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South Carolina
Now these are darn good! Believe me, once you try them you'll keep coming back for more.

3 cups flour
1/2 tsp. salt
1 yeast cake
1 cube butter
3 tbsp. sugar
9 eggs

Dissolve yeast in 1/4 cup lukewarm water.
Beat eggs well, add sugar, beat well , add disolved yeast.
Mix all with 3 cups flour, work together until it forms a soft dough, beating well.
Melt butter and let cool to lukewarm, then pour into dough, work together well and set in warm place to rise until double in size.
Heat 1 cup oil to boiling point on low heat.
Put milk in saucer, dip hands in milk.
Take dough (1 tbsp) in hand - keep stretching until round an thin.
Drop piece into oil, turning as needed to brown on both sides.
Coat each one in sugar while still warm.
 
There goes that diet... again! I'm not so sure this "Bistro" idea was such a good one :shock: (But you can bet I'll be a regular!)

Believe it or not, one year when I was probabaly a young teen, my mother set up a fryer in our living room and gave out fresh-made doughnuts for Halloween. You could never get away with that now.