Classically Abby - December 05, 2021


The Moment You've All Been WAITING For! ⧸⧸ The Festival of Bites： LATKES AND DONUTS


Episode Stats

Length

9 minutes

Words per Minute

170.64484

Word Count

1,661

Sentence Count

134

Hate Speech Sentences

4


Summary

In this final episode of the Festival of Bites, I make the traditional foods of Hanukkah, latkes and donuts. Latkes are like potato fritters, and they are fried. And donuts are donuts, which are also fried. These are typical foods that we eat on Hanukah because we like to eat fried foods on to celebrate the miracle of the oil.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Hello Classic Crew and welcome to the last episode of the Festival of Bites
00:00:04.860 where I will be making latkes and donuts.
00:00:12.980 So this is the moment you've all been waiting for.
00:00:16.240 I am going to be making the traditional foods of Hanukkah.
00:00:19.400 I'm making latkes and donuts.
00:00:21.860 Latkes are like potato fritters and they are fried.
00:00:25.620 They're delicious.
00:00:27.160 And donuts are donuts and they are also fried.
00:00:30.220 These are typical foods that we eat on Hanukkah
00:00:32.860 because we like to eat fried foods on Hanukkah to celebrate the miracle of the oil.
00:00:37.760 So I've discussed this a bit in my earlier episodes.
00:00:40.180 Make sure to go back and watch the rest of the episodes of the Festival of Bites.
00:00:44.840 This is the last and final episode.
00:00:47.640 But the food that I prepared I actually made last night for a party that we hosted.
00:00:53.040 We hosted a Hanukkah party.
00:00:54.320 And so I made donuts and latkes for all the people that we had.
00:00:58.380 And it was delicious.
00:01:00.000 It went really well.
00:01:01.080 But it was definitely a lot to kind of handle because I was making both recipes at the same time.
00:01:06.580 I was making the latkes and the donuts all at once.
00:01:09.680 I was frying them up together and not in the same pan, but at the same time.
00:01:14.560 And it is a lot to do because donuts are kind of a complicated recipe.
00:01:19.140 Latkes are not terrible.
00:01:20.320 But it is just two things going on at once.
00:01:24.600 And these are recipes you could definitely replicate at home.
00:01:27.600 So I'm excited to share them with you guys today.
00:01:30.060 Make sure to subscribe to my channel if you haven't already.
00:01:32.840 This is the last episode of the Festival of Bites.
00:01:35.300 But you will be seeing my regular content.
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00:01:42.780 all that stuff.
00:01:43.520 So keep an eye out for Wednesday's video.
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00:02:08.480 So now let's get into today's video.
00:02:11.040 So I started off by making the donuts and this is what you'll need.
00:02:14.560 Two envelopes active dry yeast.
00:02:17.700 A quarter cup warm water.
00:02:20.120 One and a half cups lukewarm milk.
00:02:22.680 A half cup white sugar.
00:02:25.080 One teaspoon salt.
00:02:27.200 Two eggs.
00:02:28.420 A third cup shortening.
00:02:30.560 Five cups all-purpose flour.
00:02:33.500 One quart vegetable oil for frying.
00:02:36.400 Two cups confectionery sugar.
00:02:38.740 One and a half teaspoons of vanilla.
00:02:41.040 And a third cup of milk.
00:02:43.540 Now I'm using a recipe from All Recipes.
00:02:46.000 I will have it linked in the description box below.
00:02:48.460 But I didn't actually end up using their glaze.
00:02:51.680 And I will get more into that later in this episode.
00:02:55.160 So I used a few of the same ingredients that they listed.
00:02:58.260 So I just explained what I used here.
00:03:00.560 And by the way, I wanted to mention, I've gotten a lot of comments about this apron.
00:03:04.320 I will have it linked in the description box below.
00:03:06.600 I got it from Cost Plus World Market and I absolutely love it.
00:03:10.220 So definitely, if you're interested in purchasing it, it might be a really nice gift for the holidays.
00:03:14.240 So the first thing that I did for the donuts is I sprinkled the yeast over the warm water and I let it stand for five minutes.
00:03:21.100 And then I mixed that together with the milk, sugar, salt, eggs, shortening, and two cups of the flour.
00:03:26.220 So I did that by hand.
00:03:36.680 And then I beat in the remaining flour.
00:03:39.640 But I was using a mixer and the mixer was not having it.
00:03:43.540 It was just too thick, too hard.
00:03:45.180 So I ended up going back to the spatula and then kneading it with my hands.
00:03:49.660 Then I greased the bowl and covered it and set it in a warm place to rise.
00:04:12.840 After I waited a bit, I turned the dough out and I cut it into donut shapes.
00:04:22.840 And that's kind of my favorite part is you roll it into a half-inch thickness and then you just cut it into donut shapes.
00:04:28.900 Now, there are specific tools you can buy that can cut it out for you in that shape.
00:04:33.600 I just used what's at hand.
00:04:35.300 I used a cup and I used a jigger.
00:04:38.180 And those two things make the perfect donut shape.
00:04:40.360 So I didn't really need to worry about purchasing something special.
00:04:43.040 I used a cup.
00:04:44.100 I used a cup and I used a cup Dukksiж lots of real.
00:04:48.100 wisdom 1.0
00:04:49.180 Remember, if I had this one cup I also used to balance, you should buy the pot.
00:04:51.980 I used a cup and I used top Dukksi to put it in a jar every year.
00:04:56.240 So I used to lay it in aعة that is the 15- does take it at preachingfully now.
00:05:01.500 I used it in a month now and now I used to buy the donut.
00:05:04.800 And this one was in the end.
00:05:06.500 This is actually I used a cup of Hell and I used to be imperfect as well.
00:05:08.600 This is a comfortable raise energy with there.
00:05:10.480 Would recommend that the ai-b视� of this year?
00:05:11.620 It's good.
00:05:12.840 Then I set the cut-out doughnuts over to the side to rise again.
00:05:32.380 While that was rising, I set to work on the latkes.
00:05:35.360 So I chose to double the recipe for the latkes because I wanted to make sure there was enough
00:05:39.080 to go around.
00:05:40.400 So I doubled everything.
00:05:42.300 So what you will need if you double the recipe like I did is four large russet potatoes,
00:05:48.060 two large onions, four large eggs, one cup all-purpose flour, four teaspoons coarse kosher
00:05:57.200 salt, two teaspoons baking powder, I accidentally showed you guys baking soda here, and one
00:06:05.020 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper, as well as oil for frying.
00:06:09.860 So I peeled and cut up the potatoes and I popped those into the Cuisinart and then
00:06:15.620 I peeled and cut up the onions and popped those into the Cuisinart and then sort of roughly
00:06:21.120 chopped up everything so that there was still a little bit of texture to the latkes.
00:06:25.120 I don't like when my latkes are super smooth.
00:06:28.620 I just don't like that texture as much.
00:06:30.380 And then I poured that into a hand towel, which I then squeezed to get all of the liquid juice
00:06:36.380 out.
00:06:37.380 And then I added in all of the other ingredients, mixed it together and set it to the side.
00:06:45.220 So unfortunately, this was where the video did not record.
00:06:49.380 I didn't record the food actually frying.
00:06:53.380 So with the doughnuts, I'll just explain pretty quickly.
00:06:55.980 The doughnuts, you slide in with a spatula into the oil, I use peanut oil, and they fry
00:07:01.360 really fast.
00:07:02.580 So you don't have to sit and wait for those to fry, they just, they fry really quickly
00:07:06.640 and you want to get them to the right color that you want to see on the doughnut.
00:07:10.940 And then for the latkes, those took a little bit longer because it's a wetter mix.
00:07:15.620 So I put that into the oil and then let those fry as well.
00:07:19.880 And this was also where I had a bit of an issue where I was trying to use the glaze from
00:07:24.420 the recipe of the doughnuts.
00:07:26.500 And I was trying to make that at the same time and it was a disaster.
00:07:31.160 I tried it twice, did not work either time.
00:07:34.560 And actually I ended up leaving it on the stove when I was done with it because I wanted to
00:07:39.320 serve the food to the guests and I was going to clean that up afterward.
00:07:42.980 And it hardened so much that it was almost impossible to remove from the pot.
00:07:48.760 So I don't know if it was something I was doing wrong.
00:07:51.080 You can try making the glaze at home.
00:07:53.460 It did not work for me.
00:07:54.660 So what I ended up doing is I just made a super simple glaze of milk, confectionery sugar,
00:07:59.860 and some vanilla.
00:08:00.920 And I just mixed that together cold.
00:08:02.540 I didn't put it over heat, nothing like that.
00:08:04.500 And it just made a beautiful glaze.
00:08:05.600 It was perfect.
00:08:06.760 And as you can see, I just dipped the doughnuts in and then added sprinkles and everything was
00:08:11.140 finished and delicious.
00:08:37.940 We actually have no more leftover doughnuts except the one that I'm going to taste test
00:08:41.700 in this video and zero leftover lot because those were completely finished.
00:08:47.140 So now I want to taste test the doughnuts for you guys.
00:08:50.300 So here is the doughnut right here.
00:08:53.320 I saved one for today's video.
00:08:56.340 And the interesting thing about these doughnuts is that they're not super sweet.
00:08:59.520 The dough itself isn't super sweet.
00:09:01.740 Most of the sweetness does come from the glaze, but it is delicious.
00:09:05.380 So let's take a bite here.
00:09:14.420 There is something very special about a homemade doughnut.
00:09:17.320 So that is it for the Festival of Bites.
00:09:19.740 I hope you guys followed along and enjoyed all of the recipes that I made.
00:09:23.760 And in this video, you got two.
00:09:25.140 So that was pretty fun.
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00:09:43.020 Bye!