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I tried my hand at doughnuts last night, I followed the recipe to a tea. My oil was 375 and everytime I put dough in to fry is fried apart...so that my doughnuts were particles after about 1 minute in the oil...
Linsia:
Sounds like your dough was too wet. Where did you get the recipe? All the recipes I looked had 1 to 1 1/2 cups liquid to 4 cups flour, plus butter and eggs. Did yours have a higher proportion of liquid?
The only other thing I can think of is that your thermometer was off and the oil wasn't hot enough, but that would probably just leave you with heavy, oily doughnuts.
Elyse
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