A Tale of Two Doughnuts, with Orchestra, Part 1

Reader Contribution by Sue Van Slooten
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This is the Tale of Two Doughnuts, or the story of how the animals created a food experiment. As previously mentioned, the animals and the swans refused to eat industrial doughnuts, either plain or glazed. This started a whole discussion between my editor and me: Would they eat the homemade ones? That was the test, but the money (highly scientific, I know) was on the homemade. I mentioned the Great Experiment to Allison at King Arthur, and the next thing you know, I was sent a link to all their doughnut recipes. I was going to try two types: baked, and fried. I did not currently own a deep fryer, so that becomes another story. One of the first things I noticed was that baked doughnuts are handled a little differently than the fried ones. OK, fair enough, I decided to make a batch of each using two different recipes. As I had mini doughnut pans, the baked doughnuts were the starting point. I even had mace. 

If you aren’t familiar with mace, it is the outer “covering” of sorts of the nutmeg. Now nutmeg is no shrinking violet of the spice world, and in my opinion, mace is even spicier. It is also the traditional spice for making doughnuts. You use a very small amount, maybe ¼ teaspoon, but if you’re bold like me, and don’t mind spicy, you can go for ½ teaspoon or more. That might be a bit much for most people though. I always seem to go for the gusto, using the ½ teaspoon. 

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