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My sons and their families are arriving from the west tomorrow. Like I said before, when our family meets, it eats. Cookmanfood Dan has been planning to visit the local Dunkin Donuts, and has even posted a blog about donuts and his favorite choices. Hmm. I rarely have donuts. Donuts automatically say, “Do Not!” to a conscientious eater. Why? Because they are loaded with empty calories: fat, sugar, and compressed carbs. These composites of any donut go right to my thighs and butt. Does it have to be this way? No! (the solution to this dilemma will follow). I happen to love donuts. My favorite is blueberry cake. CookManDan seems to think this is not a donut. Au contraire sonny boy! Just stop and think of this. It is still dough plopped into a boiling grease filled vat that has enough fat to send even the healthiest arteries into shock!  If I am going to have a donut, I do think that the blueberry cake donut is worthy of my palate. After all it has blueberries (antioxidants) and cake (antidietants), two of my favorite things! Besides, one donut does not kill a diet, unless of course it sets off a binge that lasts for weeks. Here’s another thought on the matter. I was contemplating making some homemade donuts but decided against it as the kids will still want the Dunkin Donuts donuts and they’ll probably still go and get them. Still, I was researching homemade donuts on the internet and remembered that my grandmother made some pretty delicious donuts in her time. They were all holes as that was the easy way to go, and they were rolled in cinnamon sugar. They were also worthy of any donut lover, and, the big and, it they are holes, then doesn’t that mean there is nothing to them? No calories, etc? I am deciding that these are worth the effort. I say, “Let’s make donuts!”

Homemade Donuts

1 egg
1 cup sugar
2 tbsps. butter
1 cup sweet milk
dash salt
2 tsps. baking powder
2 cups flour
1/2 tsp. ginger
1/4 tsp. nutmeg
cinnamon sugar mix

Beat together the egg,  sugar, and butter. Stir the baking powder into the flour. Add milkand salt into the flour mix and stir in egg mix. Beat well, adding 1/2 tsp. ginger and 1/4 tsp. nutmeg.  Roll dough about one-fourth of an inch thick and cut out the doughnuts.  Cook in deep fat, Crisco works best,  that will fry a small walnut-sized ball of the dough in about sixty-five seconds. Do not let the fat get any hotter or they will burn. Remove from heat and roll in cinnamon sugar or confectioner’s sugar.
Twist on this recipe: add some chopped blueberries and omit the ginger and nutmeg