Breads & bakes

Love balls

From
Sigga

Ingredients

  • 1 kg plain flour2¼ lb plain flour
  • 300 g sugar11 oz sugar
  • 8 tsp baking powder
  • 400 g raisins14 oz raisins
  • 3 eggs
  • 4 dl súrmjólk (Icelandic soured milk; use buttermilk)1⅔ cups súrmjólk (Icelandic soured milk; use buttermilk)
  • 5 dl milk2 cups milk
  • 85 g candied orange peel3 oz candied orange peel
  • 7 tsp vanilla essence
  • 6–7 tsp cardamom essence
  • oil, for deep-frying

Method

  1. Beat the eggs, súrmjólk, milk, candied peel, vanilla and cardamom essence together well.
  2. Mix the flour, sugar, baking powder and raisins, add the liquid and work everything together into a thick, soft dough.
  3. Heat the oil in a deep pan to about 180°C.Heat the oil in a deep pan to about 350 °F.
  4. Drop spoonfuls of dough into the hot oil and fry until deep golden and cooked through, turning as needed.
  5. Fry no more than 10 at a time.
  6. Drain on kitchen paper.

As she wrote it

Her page in the recipe book
Ástarpungar
(Sigga fr. + ?)
1kg. hveiti — 300gr. sykur — 8 tsk. lyftid. — 400gr. Rúsínur — (3egg + 4 dl. súrmjólk + 5dl. mjólk + (85)gr. appels. + 7 tsk. Vanilla + 6-7 tsk. kardm.dr = hrært vel saman)
Allt hnoðað saman 250 +- hiti á olíunni — 10 mest í pottinum.