Mind you, making donuts (at least the way I do it) is no great feat. But considering I hadn't done so since I was in 4-H some high-twenty-something years ago, I'm pretty happy that they were edible. Mooselet and I are going to make more after his nap, assuming he takes one. And he ate two of the donuts and liked them, and Superstation ate two of the donut holes, and this morning Mooselet told me I was the greatest dad ever, so I'm thinking it's a good day.
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Cut the center out of a Pilsbury biscuit with an empty medicine bottle and drop the resulting circle of dough into hot oil for around 15-20 seconds per side. Not rocket science. But I didn't burn them, so, you know, there's that.
I'll have to keep Mooselet away from the hot oil, of course, but we'll see how he does with the medicine-bottle-hole-punch.
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Pffft, that's cheating, and doesn't taste as good as real home-made donuts. Donut dough isn't too much work. We learned how in my first-semester HS foods class. Posts: 21182 | Registered: Sep 2004
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That's like how I make my donuts! (Except I don't actually cut a hole in the middle, I just punch a hole with my finger)
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Just throw the "sweet dough" recipe from your bread machine book into the machine. Works really well.
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But then you have to wait more than an hour and a half for donuts, when with biscuit dough you only have to wait as long as it takes to pop the stupid cardboard tube open! Posts: 5879 | Registered: Apr 2001
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That's the same way I used to make them when I was a kid, Pillsbury dough and all. Except sometimes I didn't put a hole in them. And, instead of icing them, I just rolled them in a little sugar. MMmmmmmmm.
You know, maybe it's a 4-H thing, 'cause I was in 4-H, too. In fact...you'll get a kick out of this, Pops...we had a field day once at Camarillo High. My demonstration was how to make a baked apple. Ugh.
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It's almost Halloween, which means it's almost time for my family to make Spudnuts. Yum! I love traditions like that one.
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maybe it's a weird California 4-H thing, because I've been in 4-H for 10 years, and never done anything of the such. I did foods, demonstrations, and all sorts of stuff, even showed animals, gasp.
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SO this means that all the other times that you made donuts, they DID suck? I'm sorry. At least the Mooselet thinks that you are "superdad", that would make up for all the other sucky donuts! Posts: 325 | Registered: Aug 2002
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My mom makes twisted donuts - the kind that look sort of like the DNA double-helix. I think she might cheat and use frozen bread dough, too, though.
But yay for Pop's non-sucky donuts and his superdad-ness!!
And yay for 4H!! Are you going to put your kids in it, Papa? You are, aren't you?
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California and Texas have the largest 4-H progams followed by IL and IN (where I am). I have all sorts of other 4-H trivia too, and plan to become a youth educator at some point, after teaching for a while and getting a masters. I made a thread about it a long time ago.
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I was in IL for 4H. (I'm in NY now.) If I hadn't gone away for college, I would've liked to get more involved with it at the county level, or maybe even the state - helping with organization and advocacy and such. It's such a great program...really a shame that more kids don't do it.
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yeah a lot of my friends regret it now that they've seen how involved I've been. I did crafts all ten years (that's our commitment here 3rd grade to senior year, with some exceptions including me), sewing 8, fashion review 6, dogs six, cats 5, camp 3, several other projects, plus went on two trips, one to state youth school and the other was a dog workshop at Purdue. I was president of all three of my clubs this year, and planned several things on the county level. Next year I'll be a mini leader, then take a while off while I am not living in town, and at some point will become a club leader at least. My kids will do it, probably more so than I did, because I actually know what I'm doing at that point, my parents hadn't been involved except my dad showed cows, just not the same.
What projects did you do Nell?
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I was somewhat of a dabbler, but I was mainly in the arts-n-crafts area. Lets see...dog obedience, crocheting and cross-stitching(I forget what the project title was exactly, Textiles? Needlework?), sewing, horticulture judging, and theatre were the main ones, although theatre wasn't an option in IL except for my last 3 years. I also did floral arranging, some sort of baking, geology, vegetable gardening, Passport to the World, photography, I tried painting and drawing once, and I think I did the fashion review one year. Oh, and I showed my horse in a halter class once - Reserve Grand Champion, aka 2nd place out of two. She was technically a (very) large pony, so there wasn't much competition. I went to the state fair with various things, and I won the county award for club secretary twice. That was the highest leadership role I aspired to - I'd rather support the leader than be the leader. Never did 4H camp, but I did go to leadership camp for a week on a 4H scholarship.
How on earth do you have time for 3 clubs?! Just one kept me plenty busy! I was in two for a while, but the other was definitely my "secondary" club - my friend was trying to get a new club started, and she needed moral support.
(Sorry for hijacking your thread, Papa!)
Edit: IL's parameters are age 8 to age 19 by September 1st, or at least they were when I was in it. I think they changed the date to May 1st right after I left...the September loophole meant I was actually in the club from age 8-20. Posts: 952 | Registered: Jun 2005
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We changed the dates my 5th grade year, it had been 10 to 19, now is 3rd grade to senior year, so I was on the old rules. I did 3 clubs my last five years, cats was once a month, not too demanding in any way, dogs was once a week, and could be quite stressful but was incredibly fun, my regular club was every other week, and pretty simple, but it was the one I did all ten years. My leadership trip was the state fair one, it was amazing, I made lots of friends, and all kinds of skills.
I'm jealous you had theatre, even if only for 3 years.
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