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    Default Anyone ever made fried donuts from canned biscuit dough?

    They are pretty awesome, considering how easy they are.

    Works like this:

    1) Heat a skillet with about an inch of vegetable oil. (Not super hot.)

    2) Open biscuits. Poke hole in each one with your finger.

    3) Put about 4 biscuits at a time in the oil, when the bottom is brown, flip them over. Don't let it get too brown, and if they're browning too fast, turn down the heat.

    4) When they're brown on both sides, remove to a paper-towel covered plate.

    5) Coat in cinnamon and sugar mixture (maybe about 1/2 a cup of sugar to 1 tsp. cinnamon).

    YUM.

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    I've baked them and then lightly brushed them with melted butter before rolling them in the cinnamon and sugar mixture. I didn't poke holes in them, though, so they were sort of like cheap-ass dessert dumplings instead of doughnuts.

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    Interesting. When you fry them, the sort of biscuit-y flavor mostly goes away, so it's more of a beignet type of thing, though not quite as good.

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    I might have to try it that way. Baking them still made a dry, biscuity crust even with the butter.
    So now they are just dirt-covered English people in fur pelts with credit cards.

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    We used to do this on snow days when we were kids. Mom would even let us use the deep fryer if she was feeling expansive.

    I remember taking great pains to carefully cut a hole in the center, we had some tiny circular cutter thing for some reason. We'd do half with cinnamon/sugar and half powdered sugar, using brown paper lunch bags to toss the hot donuts in and shake the heck outta the bags for coating.

    For some reason, these work much better with the super cheap canned biscuits, the kind that go on sale 3/$1. You don't want Grands or anything, waste of money and just don't turn out as well.
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    What a cool idea! I must be deprived, because I'd never heard of this before. I don't have a deep fryer, but I've got a frying pan and some Crisco.

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    I used a frying pan, Peeta, worked just fine. You don't need a lot of oil...maybe like an inch deep.

    I'd never heard of them before, either, but apparently it's a big thing in some circles!

    And thanks for the tips, QT, I'll remember the one about buying the cheap biscuits!
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    My mom made them when I was really little, in a deep fryer. Called 'em "sinkers."

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    I remember making little donuts in the deep fryer...we made some kind of batter, dipped pieces of white bread in it, and dropped them in. Kind of a poor man's beignet.

    What's kind of amazing to me in retrospect is that my mom didn't make these. When I was in 6th grade, my best friend and I got the recipe from another friend's mom. We used to make things in our deep fryer, by ourselves.

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    Do you have the horrible scars to prove it?

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    Amazingly, we are both completely unscathed.

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    See? This just proves the wisdom of AnarchoMom.

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    ha ha! My mom was so radical.

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    What a delightfully awful and disturbing mother. I wanna see what she says about donuts!

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