Carnival donuts

Carnival, the most amusing time of the year!
When I was a young girl I used to dress up, my mother and brother were big supporters and we all worked hard. So one year I was a pretty Japaneese, the other year Scarlett O'Hara, or a cave woman.. It was difficult to dance at parties, but this was part of the fun! Anything goes at carnival time.
Now I can at least cook some very sweet and fried food, not too loose the tradition. From "fat Thursday to fat Tuesday (mardi gras)", let induge in these nice feast!
I made only half portion of this recipe, because for our family it was enough. 

Ingredients

500 grs flour
3 medium potatoes
30 gr brewer's yeast
4 spoons sugat, plus more to dust the donuts
grated zest of an orange
2 eggs
1/3 glass of warm milk.
1/2 a bottle vegetable oil 


Wash and boil your potatoes until soft.
Prepare 4 trays with a tea towel on each of them.








Dissolve the yeast in the warm milk.

Mix all the dry ingredients in a bowl, put them on a board, peel the potates while they are still warm and pass them through a masher with the flour.

Add the eggs, the dissolved yeast, and mix it all until you  obtain  a smooth dough. Add a pinch of salt and work it a little bit.

Dust your board with flour and roll the dough until about 5 mm. thick.

Cut your preferred shape, donuts, 
flowers, rings. put them on a tray.

Let them leaven for at least an hour in a warm place, far for the air streams, inside your cold oven, light on, for example.




Bring the oil to the boil  and prepare the trays with some blotting paper.

Fry just few donuts each time, they take about 10 seconds each to cook, 5 seconds each side, and you have to turn them up side down.




Drain from the oil and lay them on the blotting paper.
Then roll them on both sides on a dish with some sugar.







Enjoy!!