Yeast Donuts - cooking recipe

Ingredients

410 g water
13 g dry active yeast
75 g butter or 75 g vegetable shortening
105 g sugar
11 g salt
38 g nonfat dry milk powder
105 g eggs
750 g high grade flour

Preparation

Normal dough Procedure:.
Mix yeast with a little water for about 15 minutes
Mix sugar, salt, milk powder and eggs together.
Add rest of water (should be warm), yeast mixture and the egg mixture slowly to the flour. mix for a few minutes then add softened butter. Knead for about 10 minutes.
Let dough rise until doubled in size.
Punch down and deflate dough, if its too sticky knead lightly.
Allow dough to relax for 5 minutes.
Roll out to 1.2 cm or .5 inch. Cut out shapes. Reroll excess scrap.
Place on a floured tray and allow to rise until approximately doubled in bulk. Depending on temperature this may take a few hours.
Fry at 190deg C, using two spoons to flip donuts over.
Well risen donuts should have a white band around the middle.
When cool roll in cinnamon sugar or ice with glaze:.
Icing Sugar.
Cocoa (optional).
1/2 tsp butter.
Boiling Water.
for vanilla glaze add 1/2 tsp vanilla essence.
Add icing sugar until consistency is correct.
Store in Freezer.