Easy Amish Glazed Doughnuts

Ingredients

• 3 eggs
• 6 cups flour
• 2 cups warm water
• 2 tablespoons salt
• 4 tablespoons yeast or 2 compressed yeast cakes
• ½ cup sugar
• ½ cup lard (or shortening)
• Glaze
• 2 teaspoons white Karo
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1½ cups powdered sugar
• 2 -3 tablespoons hot water

Instructions

1. In a large bowl, dissolve yeast in 2 cups of warm water.
2. Add eggs, flour, salt, sugar and lard to yeast mixture.
3. Mix well.
4. Cover with a tea towel and let rise until doubled.
5. Roll out to ½" thick, cutting with a doughnut cutter.
6. Let rise again, 30-45 minutes.
7. Fry until golden on one side then flip and do the other side.
8. This takes just a few minutes per side.Drain on paper towels and dip in glaze.
9. Glaze mixture:.
10. Mix Karo syrup, vanilla, powdered sugar and 2 T. hot water together.
11. If consistency is not thin enough, add the other tablespoon water.
12. Roll doughnuts in glaze while still warm.

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