Spudnuts

For the Saturday night LDS General Priesthood session, my family's tradition is to get together after the session, make homemade spudnuts, and talk about what the boys learned. This is one of my favorite traditions and I look forward to it, twice a year. I love it partly cause we get to eat donuts (yum!) but I love the family together time. So I'm posting our family recipe for homemade spudnuts. Even Cory (who doesn't love donuts) thinks these are delicious.

It makes A LOT, which is why we usually only do half a batch.

Full Recipe ½ Recipe

1 cup shortening ½ cup

2 yeast cakes 1 yeast cake

5 eggs 3 small eggs

1 cup sugar ½ cup

2 cup mashed potatoes 1 cup

4 cup lukewarm milk 2 cups

1 T. salt 1 ½ t.

10 – 12 cups flour 5 – 6 cups

Scald milk with shortening, sugar and salt. Pour into big mixing bowl and let cool to lukewarm. Add yeast and let soften. Add beaten eggs and enough flour to make a thin batter. Add mashed potatoes and enough flour to make a soft dough. Let rise till double in size. Roll out and cut, then rise again before frying. Fry in hot grease and dip in glaze.

Glaze

Full Recipe ½ Recipe

1 (2#) package powdered sugar ½ (2# bag) powdered sugar

1 cube butter ½ cube butter

4 T. vanilla 2 T. vanilla

Enough hot water to make thin Enough water to make thin