Oliebollen

Dutch Doughnuts

Ingredients:

• 1 cake yeast (2/3 oz)
• 1 cup milk
• 2¼ cups flour
• 2 tsp. salt
• 1 egg
• 1½ cups currants and raisins
• 1 tart (cooking) apple
• oil for deep frying

First blend the yeast with a little roomtemperature milk. sift the flour and salt. Add milk, mix to a batter with yeast and egg.

Add currants, raisins and peeled, minced apple. Leave batter in a warm place and let it rise to double size.

Heat the fat to 375°F. 

Put two metal spoons into the batter. Shape balls with the two spoons and drop them very carefully into the fat.

Fry for about 8 minutes until brown. Drain on absorbent paper and cover thickly with sifted confectioner's sugar.

They are best when eaten warm.

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