BigPanda Bakes Spudnuts

in food •  7 years ago 

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I spend most of my time writing, but every once in a while I sneak a bit of time to bake. So here is my first foray into sharing my occasional baking experiences with all my friends here on Steemit.

Hope you enjoy it!

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Every year for New Year’s Eve, my family makes Spudnuts.

WHAT??

You have never heard of spudnuts?

Well let me introduce you to a delicious treat.

Wikipedia has the following to say about the spudnut:

The potato doughnut, sometimes called a Spudnut, is a doughnut, typically sweet, made with either mashed potatoes or potato starch instead of flour, the most common ingredient used for doughnut dough. Potato doughnuts were introduced in the mid-1900s, and a recipe was published in 1938. Potato doughnuts tend to be lighter than flour doughnuts, and are prepared in a similar method to other doughnuts.

Let me tell you, if you haven’t tried a spudnut, you are in for a treat.

My wife’s family hails from Panguitch, UT. This is a very small town in the south east of Utah that lies 6624 feet above sea level. The entire population of the town is estimated to be about 1481 people. When my wife and I first were married, my mother-in-law gave us a cook book that was compiled in Panguitch and contains favorite recipes of the local residents.

Leafing through it one day, I noticed a recipe for spudnuts. In fact, there are three recipes for spudnuts—each slightly different. Each one a treasure trove of information. I love doughnuts of all types and am a bit of a doughnut fiend. I hunt them down in every city I visit. I rank them in my mind. I have some I love and many I think are a waste of flour.
I decided to giveone of these little spudnut recipes a whirl.

OH BOY!

I’m ever so glad I did.

This delectable treat has two rules.

  1. First, it is very best hot.
  2. Second, they are even better if you share.

So now, we often gather as an extended family while I whip up a huge batch of these delightful treats. We eat loads of them right out of the fryer and we put the rest in brown paper sacks and run them around the neighborhood as gifts for our neighbors. It is like a fried wave of joy spreading through the neighborhood. It always brings a smile to my face.

Want to make them?

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Here is the simple recipe:

SPUDNUTS

1 c. sugar
1 c. mashed spuds (that is potatoes if you didn’t already realize it)
2 tbs. yeast
1 ½ c milk
1 ½ tsp. salt
4 tbs. shortening
3 eggs
½ tsp nutmeg
FLOUR

Here are the instructions:

Scald milk and pour over spuds, salt, sugar, and shortening. Dissolve yeast in 1 c. warm water. When the spuds, milk, salt, sugar, and shortening are cooled, add the yeast water. Beat the eggs and add them. Add the nutmeg. Then add flour and knead until you get a soft dough.

Pretty vague on the flour, right?

I typically end up adding between 4 and 5 cups of flour. Just keep adding a cup or so at a time and keep mixing. When the dough pulls away from the side of the bowl and keeps a soft shape, it is perfect.

Let the dough raise. Punch down. Let the dough raise again. Punch down.

Now roll it out on your counter to about ½” thick. Cut it into your desired shape. Let raise one more time.

Now fry in hot oil.

WARNING: HOT OIL BURNS. Please be careful. Especially around kids and pets.

When done, shake in a bag of sugar or glaze with your favorite glaze.

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YUMMY!

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*All pictures were taken by my daughter.

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looks very appetizing! I will definitely try to cook it)))

I would be delighted if you would share some other recipes

Wow! Delicious. It's well past midnight where I am and I'm now craving for a snack.

Nice, indeed. Upvote me and I will upvote you :-)

I have NEVER heard of donuts made from spuds but omg I am so going to be trying these. I have yet to get portions right when cooking roast dinners and always have potatoes left over which end up as boring bubble and squeak - now I have something else to make with them. Will let you know how I get on !!

I will try this recipe with my spouse today. Then I will let know the taste.

Now do you add potato flour, or regular flour? Potato starch or potato starch I figured would be better, but I have no experience.

I wish I could eat these. The local place in Charlottesville has them. They are delicious! I'd be itchy for days if I ate some of these now though. My list of things I can't eat without a bad rash include potatoes and wheat. haha Damn it!

http://www.c-ville.com/spudnuts-closes-close-50-years/#.WlJT4KinGUk

It closed, was sad to see it go, hence why I was looking at this recipe.
:)

My brother, Edward, worked at a donut shop in Damascus, MD for his high school job. He was a pro at making them, and they were always best right after being cooked and glazed!

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Now I must go and eat something.

Delicious photo!

Spudnuts are pretty popular in the Texas Panhandle. Thank you for this history and recipe for us to enjoy!

That is really interesting. Many of the early settlers in the Panguitch area were from the South--mostly Missouri and thereabouts but some were from Texas as well. I wonder if they brought the recipes with them.

Wow you are very creative!
I love them. They must be delicious :)

They are so very yummy. Thanks for stopping by.

@bigpanda Always that it could it will support your work, it is possible that my vote is not so strong but always I will be supporting you. Some day I expect to be able to manage to make a post as important as yours and this way be able to help to my mom and my family, Happy day. I wait some day could come to the Margarita Island ♥

So nice of you to say. Thanks for friendship as well.

Oh no you made me hungry :)

Must be time to get baking! :)

Salivating already....

Awesome. Looks like it may be time for @dula to get some baking time in.

Definitely, I am looking at the picture every 20mins of the day to get lifted.

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these are a must make I too am a doughnut-holic; I cant wait to try these with a chocolate glaze! This maked me wonder what other pastries can be made with spuds?! hmm ill have to do some research and write my own post. Thanks for opening up this rabbit hole for me :)

Indeed a rabbit hole, but so unfortunate to me I can't make a dough-nut! Want to learn the simplest way to make one.

That looks so good! I have such a major sweet tooth so now I’m gonna have to make that this week. Thank you for sharing the recipe!

I hope you do! Let me know how they work out.

@big panda lucky for me I am baking bagels right now. Quick question... do you get issues with baking (like working your dough) at higher altitudes? does it affect the bake? thank you.

Good question. When I first moved to my current altitude, I had to make some adjustments, but not many. Now it seems my recipes are all adjusted for highish altitude (I live at about 4500 feet above sea level) I've never tried bagels before--I'd love to see a post about it from you so I can give it a whirl.

I am at sea level here, so if I can't get it right, then I better do something else. If you follow me, you can see me post my recipes with photos and explanations.

mmmmmhhhh ;-)

Yaaaas. I could destroy a donut right now!

Amen, I already want more and it has only been a few days since we made them. To solve the issue, I just put a nice carrot pudding to steam and will have a bit of caramel sauce on it later after dinner. Very excited about that. Hope you find a good donut to destroy!

Oh maaan, you'll have to have me over for dessert sometime! & thanks, haha!

It's great to spend time in writing really well and I always try to read your blog and write it a lot and I enjoy your writing.And the recipe is very nice

Thanks--I'm glad you like the recipe and the writing.

Hey man LOVED the post for sure gonna follow and if you don't mind could you check out my post and return the favor?

Looks like you have some cool info about gaming there--great posts!

In Morocco, we call it "sponge = shafang" and it has many kinds. At this moment, I eat fried on oil only. There is another kind of sugar in the outside which is very tasty.
When you want to eat these eaters you drink with it a cup of tea

Those sound really good as well.

Looks yummy! Spudnuts are looking very delicious as I haven't tasted yet:) I would like to check all three varieties you mentioned but first I would definitely try recipe you shared. Thanks you for sharing.

Let me know once you have tried them. They are yummy!

For sure I will:)

There you go! You have the right idea.


i like this food very much

food is life but upvoted is lifer :D

It is very good. Thanks for stopping by.

This is a great recipe, Most of the time I bake.

OMG!! I can't miss out on subsequent post, I really want to see and learn more. Thanks for sharing. Followed!

Glad you stopped by, thanks!

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Thanks! It is delicious.

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Got confused I thought you were gonna bake them, so glad you fried them.

wow!! this is a spice food..

I guess you could make it with spice. It is mostly very sweet. Maybe with jalapenos would be yummy! I may have to try that one time.

Awesome your food and very testy, thank you so.... much for sharing. best of luck

Seriously so tasty food. and complete with a way of making
Thank you for share this post, I will be resteem your post @bigpanda.
If there is a chance visit my blog.

@bigpanda how is possible to make 467usd from a single post?!?!?

I've never really heard of spudnuts..but oh my..they really do look yummy! I'm gonna try it out. Thanks for sharing!

Wow! You have me craving for those already, being an home economist makes it exciting to want to try out new recipes. Thanks for listing the ingredients and procedure for making those. Can't wait to make my own SPUDNUT @bigpanda

Great now I have to buy potatoes lol

Thanks for this new eater
In my so called
(Saffeng) is fried in oil and eaten with a cup of tea
Thank you for a while

My mouth watered to see those spudnuts, what do I have to do now to eat, great publication, friend, you already have a new follower and my vote.

Well potato flavor can be new i guess and it would be test because everything which is made with potato is testy LOl :P
Yummm can i get one? pLJJJJJJJJJJJ

hello, I'll follow you and you follow me back? please, I'm new in this

Don't ask to F-ollow like this you will be banned by steemit just do best posts and increase your followers, comments on others posts will increase followers.

You got a 16.28% upvote from @postpromoter courtesy of @bigpanda!

hello, I'll follow you and you follow me back? please I am new in this

These pictures are looking very delicious and yummy.
I really enjoyed it.i think it is interesting to all steamians also.
Thank you

Wooo, excellent post, very interesting! like it! I'll follow you and you follow me back please, I'm new in this

Looking very tasty

wow...its very testy food @bigpanda. Thanks for sharing recipe photo. i like your post and following.

Keliatan nya enak banget.. Tapih sayang belom saya pernah saya makan 🍩

This is great recipe, thank you.

I LOVE potato donuts! I have never heard them called spudnuts, but that is the perfect name!

Oh wow that looks delicious! I need to make myself some one day.

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Friend @bigpanda they look really rich, you should dedicate yourself to that ☺☺, a hug

yes please, put it in my mouth!

They look delicious, and they are super easy to make I love making them at home very good post

That looks delicious, will try out the recipe. Thanks

Wow yummy food...I like this food..And actually this post is outstanding and your every post i follow..Thank for sharing...Carry on your creativty in steemit and. .Best of luck ..

I'll be right over....hoping you still have a couple left....yum.
thanks for the recipe...hope I get time to make these...look fairly easy.

looks very tasty.great job.

so Delicious i hope if i can make it someday :D

Looks very delisious 😳 i want it

The name Spudnut caught my eye!! never heard of them but looks yum!!! will add to my list to try and make as they look good. Thanks

wow never heard of this before im gonna try this thanks

Looks great, tomorrow morning I'll be making a trip to my local donut shop. Wish I had the patience to make them at home.

It looks delicious !! It would be very chewy and sweet ~ good !!

Wow you are extremely inventive!

I adore them. They should be delightful..

Really good, so delicious, I will continue to pay attention to you, thanks

@bigpanda you know what !! we have this in my country , morocco exactly they are everywheeeeere 😂 but here we called it ' BINI ' its the same and similar stuff like ' CHFANJ ' and ' KHRINGO '

Very tasty food. maybe

It seems so yummy!! its one of my favorite and its also baked here at Pakistan.We call it 'KULCHA' but i didn't knew the recipe thanks for sharing and i do cooking too on weekends good job bro @bigpanda

Foto yang bagus! Saya sangat suka donat❤

😢looks yummy

Haven't ever heard of anything similar, even though we make a lot of things out of potatoes. One of these being "rieska" in Finnish, which is very close to "Lefse" which might be known in the United States too.

As quite many foods in the US have their origin recipes from somewhere in Europe, it'd be interesting to know if Spudnuts are based on something still made in Europe.

i have send you 0.1 SBD but not received any upvote from you

delicious @bigpanda

wow.yummy i like it

I am thinking of trying this out. Damn, I'm hungry right now! Well done @bigpanda

wow looks so delicious!! I want to try for sure!

Thanks for the recipe

I will also make delicious, I hope :)

I never see it befire, how we can get it

This really looks so appetizing!!!

Pretty sure this would go directly to my belly. But it looks so tasty :)

nice one @bigpanda i like this recipe i'll test it ^_-

very tasty

this is amazing

Delicious donuts.

Looooved the post. Very good. I really want to eat it.

This post has received a 29.88 % upvote from @booster thanks to: @bigpanda.

muy deliciosos..

wonderful meal @bigpanda! i guest the SPUDNUTS will taste yummy.

Oh yummy! I am going to have to give these a try. Spudelicious. :)

Excellent and delicious should be those donuts of potatoes I have never tried but I am addicted to normal donuts with creams thank you for comparing your fantastic family tradition with us greetings

wow.. They are look delicious.
steps to make spudnuts is easy to follow
i am going to try it
thanks @bigpanda for sharing the recipe

Something worth a try this weekend. It's been a while since a held a dough...

Thanks for this timely reminder :D

perfect.help me to let me be like you.
upvote me tonyy01

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They look so fattening. Ha!

I clicked on this post instantly seeing the photo. I couldn't deny my obsession towards donuts but, hold on a second. SPUDNUTS? This is the first time ever I come across it and it's definitely very interesting. I had a look on your recipe and find it rather intriguing. Now, I am gathering my gadgets to make it my own to give it a try! Hopefully it turns out great as yours :D

@bigpanda, you must be very furry and extremally cute, cause baking spudnuts is not the only way people get to like you, is it? I saw your other posts writing wonderful stories..I have a question, how do you get people to see your stories while there are not so many followers? and where do you get so many followers from if you follow that few people yourself? sorry to be that direct, hope it doesn't hurt anybody's feelings in this wonder-game. I'm very-very observant and very-very curious

Your post is very good.
Looks delicious ' once his cake ...
pictures of cakes that @bigpanda share it kalo in our area in call the cake doughnuts. That in the sugar by sprinkle has in the puree so that the cake look more beautiful and delicious

I came here to see what exactly is a spudnut is and you delivered. Now I need to find or make one to complete my journey. Thanks and also they look fantastic!

@steemseph would like these 😁😍😎