Kringlas - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 cup sour cream
1 cup sugar
1 cup buttermilk
4 tablespoons shortening, melted
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
3 1/2 cups flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
2 teaspoons vanilla

Preparation

Mix together sour cream, sugar, shortening, and half of the buttermilk.
Dissolve baking soda in other half of buttermilk and add it to sour cream mixture.
In a separate bowl mix flour, salt and baking powder.
Mix flour mixture to sour cream mixture one half cup at a time.
Add vanilla.
Refrigerate dough until cold.
Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
Coat hands with flour and 1 tablespoon at a time roll dough into a ball, then into a long strip (like a snake), then shape strip into a figure eights.
Place figure eights on a baking sheet coated with cooking spray.
Bake for 8 - 10 minutes.