Tuesday, December 26, 2006

French Doughnuts

These "french doughnuts" are also called "Binet"




Ingredients:

180 gm. water
180 gm. milk
100 gm. butter
1/2 tsp. salt
240 gm. plain flour
60 gm. sugar
1 tsp. vanilla essence
4 nos. eggs

For dusting: 100 gm. very fine sugar + 1 tsp. cinnamon powder

Method:

(1) Boil milk, water, butter and salt together till simmering boil.
(2) Pour in all the flour, take the pan off the heat and stir vigorously till it combines into a dough.
(3) Return dough onto stove and stir till dough leaves the side of the pan.
(4) Pour into a mixing bowl and let it cool till warm till break in the eggs and beat till smooth, adding eggs one at at time.
(5) Add in vanilla essence and put dough into a piping bag fitted with a star nozzle.
(6) Brush some greaseproof paper with shortening and then pipe the dough onto the paper.
(7) Heat oil in a wok and deep-fry doughnuts till golden brown. Take it out and leave it on top of some kitchen towels.
(8) Coat doughnuts with cinnamon sugar

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hi Aunty Yochana,

Thank you very much for sharing this French Doughnuts recipe.

Happy New Year 2007 to you and your family. May the new year brings continuous good health and happiness to everyone.

Anonymous said...

Hi Yochana,

Thank you very much for all your recipes. It's great!

Just a little thing: the real name in french is "Beignet" (the pronuntation is like "binet", of course). The name in spanish is "bueñuelos" or "churros" (without eggs). I like it very much with chocolate.

http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chocolate_con_churros

Pepe Calo.
Regards.

Aunty Yochana said...

thank you so much pepe calo for your information.

rgds

Anonymous said...

Hi Yochana,

Can the milk in the ingredients be milk powder and of the same weight?

Thks
Parmida

Roxane said...

Hi Yochana,

I would like to say a BIG THANK YOU for your wonderful, delicious, awesome n etc recipe. For the 1st time i manage to bake doughnuts and even cheesecake. My family gave a thumbs-up. May God Bless you n Family. Thanks again Yochana!!!!

Anonymous said...

Hi Yochana,

I would like to say a BIG THANK YOU for your wonderful, delicious, awesome n etc recipe. For the 1st time i manage to bake doughnuts and even cheesecake. My family gave a thumbs-up. May God Bless you n Family. Thanks again Yochana!!!!

Mardiana said...

Hi Aunt Yochana,
I would like to ask, do you use gram or ml for the water and milk?
Thank you.