FILLOZES (Portuguese Doughnuts)
I remember having these doughnuts, made on the spot, in San Jose in the Portuguese Hall.
3 cups flour
1/2 tsp. salt
1 yeast cake (or 1 pack)
1 cube butter
3 tbsp. sugar
9 eggs
Dissolve yeast in 1/4 cup lukewarm water. Beat eggs well, add sugar, beat well , add dissolved yeast. Mix all with 3 cups flour, work together until it forms a soft dough, beating well. Melt butter and let cool to lukewarm, then pour into dough, work together well and set in warm place to rise until double in size. Heat 1 cup oil to boiling point on low fire. Put milk in saucer, dip hands in milk. Take dough (1 tbsp) in hand - keep stretching until round and thin. Drop piece into oil, turning as needed to brown on both sides. Coat each one in sugar while still warm.