Polske Paczki - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 cake yeast
1 pt. milk (scalded and cooled)
about 7 c. flour
4 yolks and 1 whole egg
1/2 c. sugar
1/2 tsp. vanilla
grated rind of 1/8 orange or lemon
1 tsp. salt
1/4 lb. butter

Preparation

Dissolve yeast in lukewarm milk.
Add 2 cups flour, let stand in warm place 30 minutes.
Beat eggs, sugar, vanilla, grated rind of orange or lemon and scant teaspoon of salt until light.
Add this to the sponge.
Melt butter and add this to the sponge.
Add 5 cups flour, cover and allow to rise for about one hour or until double in bulk.
When light, turn on floured board and pat with hands until dough is one-half an inch in thickness.
Cut with doughnut cutter, cover and let rise again until light.
Drop in deep hot fat and fry until done.