Homemade Doughnuts

When my grandmother passed away I unearthed, in her garage, a large envelope stuffed full and carefully labelled: Recipes Collected For Years. In it I discovered a gold mine: booklets from the ’50s with tips on how to bake prize-winning cookies, a school-issued curriculum for young ladies, Tested Recipes, published in 1898 and yellow with age… and recipes for treats written in my own eight-year-old scrawl.

Making homemade doughnuts is something of a lost art, in my world, but I found a ...