What is the recipe for kinklings?

Answer 1

Happy Kinkling Day! February 12, 2013

Here's the recipe for those who want to make them:

Copied from the Frederick Post, January 30, 1975

Recipe from Mrs. Catherine Gross

Grandmother's Kinklings

1 1/2 cups sugar

3 eggs

3 1/2 cups warm water

1 cup lard or shortening

1 cup cooked mashed potatoes

2 teaspoons salt

2 yeast cakes, regular size (One (1/4-ounce) yeast packet of dry yeast OR 1 cake fresh, compressed yeast EQUALS 2- 1/4 teaspoons dry yeast (active dry or instant active dry)

Enough flour to make a stiff dough (about 10 cups)

Dissove yeast in 1/2 cup warm water. (A teaspoon of sugar in the yeast will activate it)

Cream sugar and shortening, add beaten eggs and remaining ingredients. Add part of flour and stir well. Add more flour to make a stiff dough.

In large bowl set in warm place to rise double in bulk. Roll out 1/2 inch thick and cut. Let rise again. Fry in deep fat. shake in bag of powdered sugar. Eat warm!

Yield: about 8 dozen