The Old Folks Home

[Nomadicus]

Goodnight old folks. Lots to do tomorrow and need some rest.

 

[Nomadicus]

Good morning old folks. It's drizzled some this morning most unexpectedly. We shouldn't see the 90's today either. I'll rearrange my schedule for chores. do some things in the gardens but I can do others.

 

[sourland]

Good morning. It's in the low sixties here this morning.

 

[getaclue]

My dad had the best recipe for raised donuts. He'd wait for everyone to go to bed, so he had the clean kitchen to himself, then he proceeded to destroy it. When he'd do donuts, he'd do a couple hundred. By the time they were frying, mom would be up, have the oven racks out of the oven sitting over big cookie sheets, dipping the hot donuts in glaze, and letting them drip, and cool off on the racks. When cool, they were either eaten on the spot, or put into big plastic bags. Each of us kids got a big paper grocery bag, which contained either powdered sugar, regular sugar, cinnamon sugar, etc., and we'd add donuts, and shake until they were coated. It was a nice variety.

All this got cranking at about 3:00 am (it takes time for the dough to raise more than once, with Charlie Pride blaring on the stereo. Of course, he'd call all the relatives, and neighbors to come over for coffee, and fresh, hot donuts. Funny thing is, they'd all come running over, even at that hour, to get dad's donuts. Yeah, they were worth it.

The next day, we'd take a lot of them to school for our classmates, and teachers. Not once did my brother, or I have to take any leftovers back home.

Fond memories, for sure.

 

[pennyJo1960]

I use three eggs yes mine raise great but only 6 cups of flour.
Melted butter, They do raise twice once in the mixer
then I cut them, let them raise again then fry them very hot shortening.

 

[ronott1]

I'm going to look at mixes. I hope there is a low carb version that we can use stevia with cinnamon to coat. I like all things cinnamon.

Cinnamon toast is a favorite of mine!

 

[pennyJo1960]

I add cinnamon to many things like donuts yes it is a nice spice.

 

[ronott1]

My dad had the best recipe for raised donuts. He'd wait for everyone to go to bed, so he had the clean kitchen to himself, then he proceeded to destroy it. When he'd do donuts, he'd do a couple hundred. By the time they were frying, mom would be up, have the oven racks out of the oven sitting over big cookie sheets, dipping the hot donuts in glaze, and letting them drip, and cool off on the racks. When cool, they were either eaten on the spot, or put into big plastic bags. Each of us kids got a big paper grocery bag, which contained either powdered sugar, regular sugar, cinnamon sugar, etc., and we'd add donuts, and shake until they were coated. It was a nice variety.

All this got cranking at about 3:00 am (it takes time for the dough to raise more than once, with Charlie Pride blaring on the stereo. Of course, he'd call all the relatives, and neighbors to come over for coffee, and fresh, hot donuts. Funny thing is, they'd all come running over, even at that hour, to get dad's donuts. Yeah, they were worth it.

The next day, we'd take a lot of them to school for our classmates, and teachers. Not once did my brother, or I have to take any leftovers back home.

Fond memories, for sure.

I have a recipe to try that says it takes 3.5 hours from start to finish...from experience though that sounds optimistic for time!

I used to get up at 4am to make cinnamon rolls. I use an overnight recipe now.

 

[Nomadicus]

Cinnamon toast is a favorite of mine!

Mine too. Now I can mix cinnamon with one of the tastes like sugar no cal sweeteners and use multigrain bread for the toast and that is like a good slice of cake to me.

 

[Nomadicus]

I have a recipe to try that says it takes 3.5 hours from start to finish...from experience though that sounds optimistic for time!

I used to get up at 4am to make cinnamon rolls. I use an overnight recipe now.

I can get up at 4:30am and drive to the nearest Krispy Kreme place... Then stop at the Dunkin Donut for their Apple Cinnamon donuts I really like. If only someone would fill some with coconut cream I'd be in deep trouble.