Here's my recipe, from the Little House On the Prairie cookbook. These doughnuts are one of the main reasons my husband married me, and he's a big fan of Krispy Kremes!
for 2 dozen doughnuts you will need:
Lard, 2 pounds
egg, 1
baking soda, 1 tsp.
salt, 1/2 tsp.
sour cream, 1 cup
white flour, 2 1/4 cups unbleached all-purpose
powdered sugar or cinnamon sugar, a shaker full
kettle, 3-quart; bowl, 2-quart; rolling pin; candy thermometer
Melt lard in kettle over low heat. Beat egg, baking soda, and salt into the sour cream in the bowl. Beat in 1 cup of the flour until well mixed. Continue to work in flour, 1/4 cup at a time, untiol you have a dough that can be rolled. Roll the dough in a strip about 4 by 6 by 1/4 inches. With a floured knife cut into 4-inch strips about 5/8 inch wide.
Heat the lard to 375 degrees F. Twist a strip like a corkscrew (it will stretch as you do); bring the ends together and pinch them. Drop twisted dough in hot fat. In 2 minutes the dough should be brown on both sides, crisp and cooked through. If browning takes less time, the fat is too hot; if it takes more than 3 minutes, the fat is not hot enough.
Remove cooked doughnut to brown paper to drain and coat it with powdered sugar or cinnamon-sugar mixture. Continue twisting and cooking the remaining dough strips. Serve the doughnuts immediately.
That's what the book tells you. I will say, they are much better served warm. Like most fried things, they don't taste great cold. They don't usually last long enough to find that out though. They are from the description of Mother Wilder making doughnuts in Farmer Boy. Good luck!
