Vintage Glazed Donut Recipe - the Imperfectly Happy home (2024)

FAQs

What makes an old-fashioned doughnut? ›

Old-Fashioned Doughnuts are basically cake doughnuts that have been fried. This gives them a slightly crunchy outer shell, that's usually lacquered with glaze or dusted with sugar. The inside tends to be less dense than the cake of your typical powdered doughnut and less airy than a Krispy Kreme-style glazed.

It is typically deep-fried, and may be deep fried at a lower temperature compared to other doughnut styles, having a crunchier texture compared to other cake doughnut styles. Frying at a lower temperature contributes to its rough, cracked texture.

Sour cream doughnuts – also known as old-fashioned doughnuts- are known for being the least dainty of the doughnut family. They're bulky doughnuts that are firm on the outside but oh-so-moist on the inside.

The history of the doughnut itself is generally traced to Dutch immigrants in 17th- and 18th-century New York, then New Netherland, who prepared fried dough balls called olie koeken or olykoeks, which means “oil cakes.” They were similar to modern doughnuts, although they did not yet have the iconic ring shape.

In 15th century Germany, where sugar was hard to come by, they were often cooked savory with fillings like meat or mushroom. The Pilgrims and Dutch settlers brought doughnuts to America.

Purchased cake flour will yield light and delicate doughnuts, just like the ones from a good bakery. DIY substitutions don't really cut it. AP flour will not create doughnuts with that same soft texture. Bleached cake flour will work best.

Recommendations. Compared with doughnuts filled with jelly or custard, glazed doughnuts may be a healthier choice. Still, they're far from a healthy breakfast or snack and should only be enjoyed in moderation.

They are healthier than fried donuts. The donuts are moist and fluffy, with a slightly crispy exterior. They are versatile. You can customize the recipe to your liking by adding different flavors of glaze or toppings.

For example, the Old Fashioned Cake Donut has a mild vanilla flavor with a slight nutmeg finish. These donuts take about 12-15 minutes to create from start to finish. A French Cruller* has a soft, airy texture with a pleasant light “egg-like” flavor. The center of the French Cruller is wet with a crunchy exterior.

'Long John' is the most popular name for unfilled oblong donuts in the Midwestern United States and Canada, where they usually call filled varieties "cream sticks". However, other regions have their own preferred titles.

Is butter or shortening better for donuts? ›

We have found that peanut oil or vegetable shortening yield the best texture for donuts, with shortening producing the crispest exteriors.

So What Is The Homer Simpson Donut? A pink glazed donuts (unknown if it's strawberry flavoured glaze or not) with multicoloured Jimmy's on top. Yes, they're called Jimmy's and not sprinkles. Jimmy's are the longer shaped sprinkles and come in all colours.

It is commonly used to represent real and metaphorical doughnuts, breakfast, bakeries and baked foods, snacks, coffee breaks, The Simpsons, and negative stereotypes of police officers.

But the doughnut proper (if that's the right word) supposedly came to Manhattan (then still New Amsterdam) under the unappetizing Dutch name of olykoeks--"oily cakes."

To fully cook the insides of the dough, the dough would have to stay in the oil for a longer time, which would lead to the outsides becoming burnt. Punching a hole in the middle of the dough, however, allows the insides and the outsides to cook evenly, creating a perfect donut.

Cake doughnuts, lacking that honeycomb structure of big yeast bubbles, are often (but not always) smaller, with a puckered little hole. A subset, the old-fashioned doughnut, always has a cracked, craggy surface, and in the most classic versions the sides splay out like the petals of a flower.

Old-Fashioned

It's the donut you order with a cup of coffee or tea and dunk.

For example, the Old Fashioned Cake Donut has a mild vanilla flavor with a slight nutmeg finish. These donuts take about 12-15 minutes to create from start to finish. A French Cruller* has a soft, airy texture with a pleasant light “egg-like” flavor. The center of the French Cruller is wet with a crunchy exterior.

There is no real difference between the actual food item. It's basically fried dough. The only difference is in the spelling. In England the spelling is doughnut and in America it's spelled donut.