Ingredients
- ½ c milk
- 2 tbsp sugar
- 1 tsp salt
- 6 tbsp shortening
- 2 packets dry yeast
- 4 c flour
- Oil for frying
- Sugar mixture: 1/2 c sugar with 1 tsp cinnamon
Instructions
- Heat together, but do not boil, milk, sugar, salt, and shortening until shortening is melted.
- Cool to lukewarm.
- Add yeast and stir until dissolved. Stir in flour, 2 cups at a time, beating until smooth after each addition.
- Put in a greased bowl, cover with a damp cloth and let rise until double about 30 minutes.
- Dust hands with flour and pinch off pieces of dough about the size of a golf ball. Stretch each ball into a think 6-8 inch circle. Have oil at 350°. Drop stretched dough, one at a time, into hot oil.
- Fry until it rises to the surface, turn and fry other side until light brown.
- Drain on absorbent paper and sprinkle generously with sugar mixture.