Oliebollen
Submitted by omaria on January 01, 2011 at 3:27 pm

Dutch New Year treat
Yield: 200

7 1/2 lbs. self rising flour,
11 1/2 cups of lukewarm milk,
4 eggs,
8 oz. citron,
8 oz. orange peel,
8 oz. lemon peel,
16 oz. dried cranberries.
2 lbs. mixed dry fruit (I used my home made fruit mix) to your own taste, raisins, apricots, apples etc.
6 tbs. lemon zest.
Oil for deep frying.

Make a thick batter from flour, milk and eggs. Stir in all the other ingredients. Batter should be thick enough to go "plop....plop.... off a spoon.

Heat oil to 325 F. I use an ice cream scoop to drop the batter into hot oil. The bollen will sink down to the bottom and pop right back up. Don't put more bollen in your pan than can easily float together, without crowding each other. Fry for 8 minutes. They might turn over on their own, if not use fork to turn them over.

I never use a recipe but had promised to write it all down this time.. So here it is. I will ask DH to post some pictures on my personal page later. I put 200 into the "yield "box but it won't accept it. I will try to submit again by using "20" but this recipe makes 200 oliebollen.

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