Koblihy(Doughnuts) - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 large yeast cake
3 Tbsp. sugar
1/2 c. shortening
1/2 c. warm milk
1 jigger bourbon whiskey
6 to 8 c. flour
pinch of salt

Preparation

Dissolve
yeast
with
a small amount warm water.
Then add sugar,
shortening,
salt,
milk
and
one
cup flour and whiskey. Cream
together
and
slowly
add flour one cup at a time to make a soft dough and work the batter like you do for kolaches. Cover
and
let
rise about 45 minutes to one hour. Roll
the dough
out
with
rolling pin and cut circle with a glass.
Then fill
each
circle
with
prunes
or
poppy seed filling.
Pinch the
circle
close
and
place
doughnut on a warmed
flour
cloth and let rise for about 30 minutes.
Turn them
over again, let rise to expand.
Uncover after 3 minutes and
start frying in deep container.
After brown on each side lift
with
wired
spatula and place on absorbent paper. Then roll doughnut in granulated sugar lightly.