New Year’s Cookies!!! We make these almost every New Years. They are awesome!!

Look yummy

Made of what?

Does not look low calorie or diet/healthy.

Must be goooood.

The more calorie/saturated fat/unhealthy the better they taste......

Flour, water, egg, sugar, yeast, maybe some salt. Make the dough, deep fry it, sprinkle with some love.

Lol absolutely!!

Interesting. Thanks!

There ya go. Good stuff is BAD for you. Truth.

Don't blame the food for making you fat/unhealthy. Get yer butt out there and run a long trapline/drag a buck a half mile or more uphill/work your tail off at your job/split a half cord of wood.

Enjoy lifes little pleasures , just do the hard work to compensate for it. Works for me , I work/play hard and can enjoy a decadent meal for my efforts.

Those look like the ones that my Grandma used to make that nobody ate except me.

We have that at the County Fairs.....fried dough

Moose turds with white mold ???

No, we bring that out when we have company.

LOL! That's not the Canadian comfort I've been privy to.

portzelky would be the word id use for that ..and had it for all my 67 yrs of life

a dough fritter covered in icing sugar after being deep fried in oil..with raisins inside of the dough






New Year’s Cookies (Portzelky)

For this you will need: 4 eggs, 2 cups of milk, 2 tablespoons and 1/2 teaspoon of sugar, 3/4 teaspoon of salt, 4 tablespoons of melted butter, 3 or 4 cups of raisins, 4 1/4 cups of flour, 2 teaspoons of baking powder, 1/2 cup of warm water, and 1 package of quick rise yeast. And icing sugar for on top.

Before you start, rinse your raisins in a colander and set them aside to partially dry off. The recipe calls for 4 cups of raisins, but our family doesn't like as much, so I only did 3 cups.

Next mix together 1/2 cup of warm water, 1/2 teaspoon of sugar and 1 package of yeast (or 2 1/4 teaspoons). Let it sit until it gets foamy on top.

Now in a mixing bowl, sift together 4 cups of flour with 2 rounded teaspoons of baking powder. Add 2 tablespoons of sugar, 3/4 teaspoons of salt, 4 tablespoons of melted butter, 4 eggs (already beaten), and 2 cups of warm milk (I microwaved it for 1 minute). Mix it altogether. Your batter will not be thick, this is a good thing. Do not add more flour or your fritters will not be as fluffy.

By now your raisins should be pretty much dry, but still a bit damp. Add them to a separate bowl, add 1/4 cup of flour for 3 cups of raisins, and a bit more if you have 4 cups of raisins. Mix it up so that the raisins are coated with the flour. This is to help the raisins stay in their place in the batter and help them to not sink to the the bottom of the bowl.

Add the raisins into the batter and mix it all up.

Cover your batter and let it rise for 1 hour, or until it has doubled.

If you are using a deep fryer, set your temperature to 340 degrees, or if you're using a pot of oil, set it to medium (temperature should reach 340 degrees).

Once your oil is ready, use a teaspoon to drop dough into the oil. The balls will not be round, or pretty, but that doesn't matter. I forgot to take a picture of this part, but what you want to do is use one teaspoon to scoop the batter up, and then another teaspoon to push the batter off the first spoon into the oil.

Fry for 5 minutes on each side, flipping them in between.

Put some paper towel on down, and after 10 minutes place the New Year's Cookies on the paper towel to absorb some of the oil. After they have cooled for a few minutes, sprinkle some icing sugar on them, flip them over, and sprinkle icing sugar on the other side.

Ok. Would you like to come for a visit...and dinner?

Yup, that’s what quite a few others call it here too.

Well JP...I've never seen moose turds...
Just a guess...

Looks Real good

My grandmother used to make them every year up in northern MN when I was growing up. She made some plain with the sugar and some with raisins in the dough. Good memories!

Nice! I won’t touch one if it has raisins in it lol.