Oliebollen
(from nick’s recipe box)
I found this recipe online, but Dad used to talk about these. You can leave out the fruit if you want.
Source: Chuck Taggart (website)
Ingredients
- 800 grams of raisins
- 1300 gram of flour
- 50 grams of sugar
- 50 grams of butter
- 80 grams of dry yeast
- 2 eggs
- lemon juice
Directions
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Wash the raisins and soak them for a while (at least 30 mins, better is one day). Fill a bowl with 1 liter of warm water (not hotter than 40° C or the yeast will die).
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Stir the eggs, sugar, butter and lemon juice through the whatever to make a somewhat elastic batter. Only stir in one direction! Heat the raisins in the water that they have been soaked in. Do not boil! Mix the raisins with the batter.
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Let the batter rise for 30 mins covered with a damp cloth in a warm place.
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Heat oil to 180° C.
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y small portions (about 3 to 3.5 inches in diameter) of the batter in the oil and turn them if necessary. They should come out nice gold brown and all done in the middle.
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Sprinkle the oliebollen with powdered sugar. Enjoy!