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You are here: Home / Food & Recipes / Food / Sufganiyot: Jelly Donuts For the Jewish Festival of Lights

Sufganiyot: Jelly Donuts For the Jewish Festival of Lights

by Adam L Silverman|  December 19, 20167:19 pm| 155 Comments

This post is in: Food, Open Threads

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(Sufganiyot for sale in Israel)

A desperate plea has gone out for a recipe thread. Or a pet thread. I’ve decided not to combine them – not to look down on anyone’s traditional/cultural culinary delights. And since I didn’t bother to do any photo documentation of the meatballs and red sauce I made earlier today, I thought I’d share this NY Times recipe for sufganiyot (h/t: The Vicious Babushka at LGF – and today is, apparently, her birthday so all you folks that don’t comment there, click across and wish her a happy birthday just because!). Sufganiyot are served in Israel as part of Hanukah celebrations as opposed to potato latkes (potato pancakes), which are the Hanukah treat of choice here in the US.

Here’s the recipe:

Ingredients

  • ¼ cup lukewarm milk or water
  • 1 teaspoon dry yeast
  • 3 tablespoons sugar
  • 1 whole egg plus 1 egg yolk
  • 3 tablespoons sour cream or vegetable oil
  • ¼ teaspoon salt
  • ¼ teaspoon vanilla extract
  • Freshly grated zest of 1/2 orange
  • 1 ⅔ cups flour, more as needed
  • ½ cup thick raspberry or strawberry jam (Adam baking comment: you can also use chocolate mousse, boston cream, pastry cream, or anything else you want inside your sufganiyot)
  • Vegetable oil for deep-frying
  • Confectioners’ sugar for dusting
  • Nutritional Information
    • Nutritional analysis per serving (12 servings) 162 calories; 8 grams fat; 1 gram saturated fat; 0 grams trans fat; 5 grams monounsaturated fat; 1 gram polyunsaturated fat; 18 grams carbohydrates; 1 gram dietary fiber; 4 grams sugars; 2 grams protein; 29 milligrams cholesterol; 57 milligrams sodium
    • Note: The information shown is Edamam’s estimate based on available ingredients and preparation. It should not be considered a substitute for a professional nutritionist’s advice. Powered by Edamam

Preparation

  1. Place milk or water in small bowl. Sprinkle yeast and 1 teaspoon sugar over milk. Set aside until frothy, about 10 minutes.
  2. In a mixer fitted with paddle attachment, beat remaining sugar with egg and egg yolk. Add sour cream, salt, vanilla extract, orange zest and yeast mixture, and mix well. With mixer running, gradually add flour. Mix until dough is soft, smooth and elastic, adding flour if dough seems very sticky, 3 to 5 minutes. Do not add more than an additional 3 tablespoons flour; dough will be somewhat sticky, but will firm up in refrigerator. Place in an oiled bowl, cover, and refrigerate at least 4 hours or overnight.
  3. On a floured surface, roll out dough to 1/2-inch thickness. Use a biscuit or a cookie cutter to cut out 2-inch rounds, placing them on a parchment-lined baking sheet. Reroll scraps and cut again. Let rise in a warm place 30 minutes.
  4. In a heavy pot, heat 3 inches of oil to 365 degrees; when hot enough, a small piece of dough will brown on bottom in 30 seconds. If too hot, doughnuts will brown outside before cooking through. Working in batches, fry doughnuts until golden brown, turning once. Drain on paper towels and dust with sugar while still warm. Let oil come back to 365 degrees between batches.
  5. If you have a pastry bag, fit with a small round tip and spoon jam into bag. When doughnuts are cool enough to handle, use tip of bag (or pointed tip of a serrated knife) to make a hole in bottom of doughnut. Squeeze or use a small spoon to nudge 1/2 teaspoon jam into hole. Repeat with remaining doughnuts and serve immediately. Dust again with powdered sugar.
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  1. 1.

    Elizabelle

    December 19, 2016 at 7:28 pm

    Thank you! Minty.

  2. 2.

    Adam L Silverman

    December 19, 2016 at 7:29 pm

    @Elizabelle: You’re welcome. Please don’t call me Minty.

  3. 3.

    Elizabelle

    December 19, 2016 at 7:29 pm

    Nutella.

    ETA: funny. As a filling. Not a pet name.

    You will always be “Ganache” to me.

  4. 4.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    December 19, 2016 at 7:32 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: Would Shirley be OK then?

  5. 5.

    Adam L Silverman

    December 19, 2016 at 7:32 pm

    @Elizabelle: That would work as a filling, but it won’t work as a replacement for calling me Minty.

  6. 6.

    jeffreyw

    December 19, 2016 at 7:33 pm

    The traditional Bean burrito with nacho chips and a lovely bean dip with more beans.

  7. 7.

    Adam L Silverman

    December 19, 2016 at 7:33 pm

    @BillinGlendaleCA: No, that was my aunt’s name. So it would get confusing. Also, and unfortunately, she was nuts.

  8. 8.

    Elizabelle

    December 19, 2016 at 7:34 pm

    @jeffreyw: Gorgeous. But I liked Gabe on the couch. Beautiful pet portrait.

  9. 9.

    Adam L Silverman

    December 19, 2016 at 7:34 pm

    @jeffreyw: Do you have a non-traditional bean burrito? Perhaps a neo-Cubist bean burrito or a post-modern bean burrito?

  10. 10.

    Elmo

    December 19, 2016 at 7:34 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: Mint filling? Here, suck on this toothpaste tube instead.

  11. 11.

    The Lodger

    December 19, 2016 at 7:35 pm

    @BillinGlendaleCA: Shirley as a filling? Ew.

  12. 12.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    December 19, 2016 at 7:36 pm

    @Adam L Silverman:

    No, that was my aunt’s name. So it would get confusing. Also, and unfortunately, she was nuts.

    Surely you jest.

  13. 13.

    Elizabelle

    December 19, 2016 at 7:36 pm

    SO: Raleigh News & Observer readers detest Franklin Graham. He gets dissed a lot in the comments.

    Franklin been tweeting. Twere not the Russians intervening in the election. It was God.

    Poor North Carolina.

  14. 14.

    Adam L Silverman

    December 19, 2016 at 7:36 pm

    @Elmo: I did not recommend mint filling. A mint, chocolate mousse would work. But only if you like mint and chocolate together. Though, I suppose, one could do a more Christmasy peppermint stick cream filling.

  15. 15.

    Adam L Silverman

    December 19, 2016 at 7:37 pm

    @BillinGlendaleCA: I don’t jest. And don’t call me Shirley!

  16. 16.

    Patricia Kayden

    December 19, 2016 at 7:37 pm

    And for the pet lovers.

  17. 17.

    Roger Moore

    December 19, 2016 at 7:40 pm

    @Adam L Silverman:

    Also, and unfortunately, she was nuts.

    What kind of nuts? Was she a nut only by the culinary definition, or also by the botanical definition?

  18. 18.

    Curtis

    December 19, 2016 at 7:41 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: are you this Minty?

  19. 19.

    jeffreyw

    December 19, 2016 at 7:41 pm

    This just in: We can now confirm that this is a boy kitteh, named Ollie.
    Now, back to your boring food thread sans enough kittehs to be morally meaningful.

  20. 20.

    SiubhanDuinne

    December 19, 2016 at 7:42 pm

    @Adam L Silverman:

    Cigarette?

    Yes, I know.

  21. 21.

    Adam L Silverman

    December 19, 2016 at 7:42 pm

    @Roger Moore: Unfortunately, neither.

  22. 22.

    Eljai

    December 19, 2016 at 7:42 pm

    @Elmo: One year my sister made mint brownies with light green frosting for the holidays and I renamed them crest brownies because I was kind of obnoxious, but so were the brownies.

  23. 23.

    jeffreyw

    December 19, 2016 at 7:43 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: I have a non traditional bean burrito that uses pork and cheeses in lieu of beans. It is sauced with a honey chocolate mole.

  24. 24.

    JPL

    December 19, 2016 at 7:46 pm

    Michelle Obama’s interview with Oprah is on CBS at 8.

  25. 25.

    Schlemazel

    December 19, 2016 at 7:46 pm

    @Adam L Silverman:
    Surely you jest

    edit: craaaaap, bill got there before me!

  26. 26.

    Elizabelle

    December 19, 2016 at 7:47 pm

    @JPL: Thank you for the head’s up. I will watch it.

    She’s right about the “no hope” part.

  27. 27.

    jeffreyw

    December 19, 2016 at 7:47 pm

    @Elizabelle:
    This one?

  28. 28.

    cynthia ackerman

    December 19, 2016 at 7:47 pm

    @jeffreyw:

    Pork burritos for Hannukah.

    You’re nuts, Adam, but greatly appreciated.

    Best to you.

  29. 29.

    Major Major Major Major

    December 19, 2016 at 7:49 pm

    I love how this post is tagged ‘sufganiyot’.

  30. 30.

    Schlemazel

    December 19, 2016 at 7:50 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne:
    The Hospital! What is it doctor?

  31. 31.

    Schlemazel

    December 19, 2016 at 7:51 pm

    @cynthia ackerman:
    If you are going with the pork don’t forget the sour cream . . . as long as you keep them on separate plates.

  32. 32.

    debbie

    December 19, 2016 at 7:52 pm

    @Elizabelle:

    I doubt even his dad liked him.

  33. 33.

    Jay Noble

    December 19, 2016 at 7:54 pm

    Sideways here – I think I may have a way to Resist and Preserve at the same time.

    Head over to the NOAA site and download or buy a CD/ROM or DVD of your local weather history. I get lost and haven’t been able to find it again but at one time they had my local DAILY National Weather Service station (airport) history all the way back to 1949. Temps, Precip, wind, etc. There are tons of data available and that’s the point. An awful lot of our climate info isn’t reliant on satellites but one of Trump’s minions might actuall get a clue and go after it. Should worse come to worst . . . Hopefully it’s a gift to the future that never needs to be used.

    Heck, even archiving digital versions of local papers can help in this aspect.

  34. 34.

    Elizabelle

    December 19, 2016 at 7:55 pm

    @debbie: His mother definitely had some issues with young Franklin.

    Billy is still alive. 98. Probably wishing he’d given the ministry to the girls.

  35. 35.

    Elizabelle

    December 19, 2016 at 7:56 pm

    @jeffreyw: That very one.

    Museum quality. Love it.

    A photo? How?

  36. 36.

    Adam L Silverman

    December 19, 2016 at 7:59 pm

    @Curtis: No.

  37. 37.

    Adam L Silverman

    December 19, 2016 at 8:00 pm

    @jeffreyw: wouldn’t that just be a pork and cheese burrito?

  38. 38.

    Schlemazel

    December 19, 2016 at 8:01 pm

    @Elizabelle:
    actually for the last 10 years or so I believe what he really wanted was banana mambo slide wiggle room top knot

  39. 39.

    Adam L Silverman

    December 19, 2016 at 8:01 pm

    @cynthia ackerman: Thanks, I think…

  40. 40.

    lamh36

    December 19, 2016 at 8:02 pm

    OT…

    Newsflash: FLOTUS Michelle Obama (and a surprise PBO) and her LAST interview as First Lady is speaking with Oprah (of course) now on CBS!!

  41. 41.

    Elizabelle

    December 19, 2016 at 8:02 pm

    @debbie: You remind me: I saw a great article today about actual faith in action.

    In Spain. A priest in Madrid who (among other things) runs four Robin Hood cafes that serve dinner to homeless people, in a restaurant setting, after opening to paying customers for breakfast and lunch.

    It is the brainchild of the Rev. Ángel García Rodríguez, 79, one part clergyman, one part innovator and nonprofit entrepreneur, who has spent a lifetime working with the needy.

    Unconventional down to his attire, Father Ángel, as he is universally called, prefers a suit and loose tie to a collar, unless he is saying Mass, and is just as likely to hand out his business card as communion. “The priest habit is like my gala outfit,” he said with a chuckle.

    I think Father Angel and Pope Francis would get along just fine. And they’d see Franklin Graham for what he is.

    Oprah and Michelle up now. CBS.

  42. 42.

    Steeplejack (tablet)

    December 19, 2016 at 8:03 pm

    @jeffreyw:

    Linky no work. You fix.

  43. 43.

    Elizabelle

    December 19, 2016 at 8:04 pm

    @Schlemazel: Not sure what that means, but Chuck Berry could make a song out of that.

    And thank dog Chuck is still with us. This effing year.

    Michelle is gorgeous.

  44. 44.

    jeffreyw

    December 19, 2016 at 8:05 pm

    @Elizabelle: Using this app.

  45. 45.

    JPL

    December 19, 2016 at 8:08 pm

    Trump will be tweeting tonight. Michelle is discussing Trump and sexual abuse.

  46. 46.

    jeffreyw

    December 19, 2016 at 8:08 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: Yes! It’s a non traditional bean burrito. Word have meaning!

  47. 47.

    Hal

    December 19, 2016 at 8:08 pm

    I’m probably late to the party on this, but Ta-Nehisi Coates on the Daily Show pretty much sums up what gets me so enraged about Trump being President after Obama.

    If I have to jump six feet to get the same thing that you have to jump two feet for that’s how racism works. To be president, Obama had to be scholarly, intelligent, president of the Harvard Law Review, the product of some of our greatest educational institutions, capable of talking to two different worlds. Donald Trump had to be rich and white. That was it. That’s the difference.

  48. 48.

    debbie

    December 19, 2016 at 8:09 pm

    @Elizabelle:

    Thank you. Nice to read that story on a day like this.

  49. 49.

    Elizabelle

    December 19, 2016 at 8:09 pm

    Calling out Trump for his vulgarity and assaults.

    And then he got elected. By the Electoral College.

    Dog bless all of us good ones that did not deserve this.

    Michelle is talking about “words matter.”

  50. 50.

    Elizabelle

    December 19, 2016 at 8:10 pm

    And she says right out: it wasn’t done for my husband when he took office.

    People did not support his presidency. Not good for the country. It was good for (their) politics ….

  51. 51.

    Patricia Kayden

    December 19, 2016 at 8:11 pm

    Not agreeing with FLOTUS’ promise to help Trump succeed.

  52. 52.

    Patricia Kayden

    December 19, 2016 at 8:13 pm

    FLOTUS is too polite. Love her anyways.

  53. 53.

    jeffreyw

    December 19, 2016 at 8:13 pm

    @Steeplejack (tablet): Works for me. here it is bare: http://i.imgur.com/9PIzoQZ.jpg

  54. 54.

    lollipopguild

    December 19, 2016 at 8:14 pm

    @efgoldman: Mint Chocolate chip bourbon brownies.

  55. 55.

    Elizabelle

    December 19, 2016 at 8:15 pm

    @Patricia Kayden: I liked ksmiami’s revision on an earlier thread.

    They go low, we kick them in their faces. Don’t normalize Trump.

    Plus, it’s hilarious to hear about the Michelle to Melania transition, when it sounds like the third Mrs. Trump will not be moving to the White House for a long time. If ever.

  56. 56.

    lamh36

    December 19, 2016 at 8:18 pm

    @JPL:

    Let me tell ya…ya’ll can come for PBO…fine…but
    DON’T COME FOR MICHELLE LAVAUGHN ROBINSON OBAMA!!!!

  57. 57.

    Steeplejack (tablet)

    December 19, 2016 at 8:18 pm

    @jeffreyw:

    Works now. Wasn’t working before for quite a while. Message was “This page is not working” rather than “Page not found,” etc. Sounded like a message specific to the site.

  58. 58.

    SiubhanDuinne

    December 19, 2016 at 8:19 pm

    @JPL:

    Michelle is discussing Trump and sexual abuse.

    Why are you repeating yourself like that?

  59. 59.

    Elizabelle

    December 19, 2016 at 8:19 pm

    Thank you Oprah. Discussing the financial crisis:

    “Most people don’t remember, and a lot of people choose to forget.”

    It is a choice. People who did not vote for Hillary this year voted on fake news and fake history. When they weren’t just voting out of selfishness and spite.

    Shame on them.

  60. 60.

    Patricia Kayden

    December 19, 2016 at 8:19 pm

    Lol!!! Kick them in the face, rhetorically speaking, of course.

  61. 61.

    LAO

    December 19, 2016 at 8:20 pm

    @efgoldman: I stand with EFG, I love a good donut but latkes are the best.

  62. 62.

    Patricia Kayden

    December 19, 2016 at 8:21 pm

    Love the highlighting of diversity in our current White House. We won’t see that for the next four years.

  63. 63.

    SiubhanDuinne

    December 19, 2016 at 8:22 pm

    @lollipopguild:

    Mint Chocolate chip bourbon brownies.

    ! ! !

  64. 64.

    Adam L Silverman

    December 19, 2016 at 8:23 pm

    @LAO: @efgoldman: That recipe is coming later this week.

  65. 65.

    JPL

    December 19, 2016 at 8:24 pm

    Michelle is a remarkable woman. Ivanka is going to have trouble filling her shoes.

  66. 66.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    December 19, 2016 at 8:25 pm

    @Elizabelle: Thank you Oprah. Discussing the financial crisis:

    “Most people don’t remember, and a lot of people choose to forget.”

    applies even more, I think, to the Iraq war. Some precious flower in WA, a Dem/Clinton elector, couldn’t bring its precious self to vote for the warmongering email deleter, and cast its precious vote for… Colin Powell.

    Beam me up, as the man with what is now the second worse coiffure in US politics used to say.

  67. 67.

    SiubhanDuinne

    December 19, 2016 at 8:26 pm

    @lamh36:

    Yeah, don’t even THINK it!!

    Woman throws best shade in the history of the world. And if her girls are as smart as I think they are, Malia and Sasha are gonna be side-eyein’ a whole new generation.

    Love that family so much. I wish them every happiness, forever.

  68. 68.

    lamh36

    December 19, 2016 at 8:27 pm

    So many adults want childish reactions to everything…

    @EmilWilbekin
    “Being a grown-up” helped @FLOTUS be able to step into the role of the first African American First Lady. “I have a good sense of who I am.”

  69. 69.

    Roger Moore

    December 19, 2016 at 8:28 pm

    @Patricia Kayden:

    Love the highlighting of diversity in our current White House. We won’t see that for the next four years.

    I don’t know. I think we’re going to see a lot more diversity in terms of mental health than we saw during the Obama years. Obama had a boringly sane group for his cabinet, while Trump is going to go for all of DSM V. That’s some real diversity for you!

  70. 70.

    Elizabelle

    December 19, 2016 at 8:28 pm

    Apropos of nothing: did I tell you all that I saw Marvel’s Dr. Strange and absolutely loved it?

    Not usually my type of movie, but it was a favorite this year. A bit much fighting, but very good story and casting, and costumes and just everything.

  71. 71.

    Patricia Kayden

    December 19, 2016 at 8:28 pm

    Now I have to hunt down that Coates’ article about Mrs. Obama. Dang it!!

  72. 72.

    Patricia Kayden

    December 19, 2016 at 8:30 pm

    @Roger Moore: That’s too much diversity for me.

  73. 73.

    Elizabelle

    December 19, 2016 at 8:30 pm

    @Roger Moore: Truly. We will have our DSM V categories out.

    Which borderline personality disorder is that?

    Fun times ahead.

    Oprah show: Michelle as angry black woman. Really?

  74. 74.

    Patricia Kayden

    December 19, 2016 at 8:31 pm

    Tearing up at the photos of the Obama girls. They’ve grown up so beautifully.

  75. 75.

    lamh36

    December 19, 2016 at 8:33 pm

    @Elizabelle: dang…I still haven’t seen it…I need to though…

  76. 76.

    JPL

    December 19, 2016 at 8:34 pm

    @Patricia Kayden: Not according to the National Enquirer. Malia is in rehab. The young lady you saw getting off the plane in Hawaii must have been a body double.

  77. 77.

    Elizabelle

    December 19, 2016 at 8:34 pm

    @lamh36: You will like it. Promise!

  78. 78.

    lamh36

    December 19, 2016 at 8:37 pm

    @tyunscripted
    “Don’t dial it back. Don’t dilute it. Don’t apologize for it. Let it speak for itself.” -@FLOTUS on living out loud #OprahandFLOTUS

  79. 79.

    chopper

    December 19, 2016 at 8:37 pm

    my latkes are insanely good. this year tho I’m really goin all nuts in the frying. whatever, I’m a deep fry it.

  80. 80.

    GregB

    December 19, 2016 at 8:38 pm

    @Elizabelle:

    I Liked Dr. Strange alot.

  81. 81.

    lamh36

    December 19, 2016 at 8:39 pm

    @lolaogunnaike
    The subtle shade that is being thrown during this interview is brilliant. #MichelleObama

  82. 82.

    Vicious Babushka

    December 19, 2016 at 8:41 pm

    Thanks for sharing this thread! These doughnuts are insanely good, I took them to work and there are none left! I made 2 kinds using this basic dough: raspberry filling with powdered sugar topping, and custard filling with chocolate glaze topping.

  83. 83.

    Elizabelle

    December 19, 2016 at 8:42 pm

    Ad for Hidden Figures!

    Can’t wait to see that movie. Wish John Glenn had lived to see it, but he had a good ride.

  84. 84.

    Elizabelle

    December 19, 2016 at 8:43 pm

    @lamh36: I know. Think I might have to watch it again.

    @efgoldman: Probably true, that. Cannibals!

  85. 85.

    lamh36

    December 19, 2016 at 8:44 pm

    @Elizabelle: I’m really looking forward to Hidden Figures guys…I hope EVERYONE, but especially POC go to see it on Christmas Day.

    I think Hidden Figures more so than Fences…needs the heft of a big box office. Fences has Denzel…win or lose it will do alright.

  86. 86.

    Adam L Silverman

    December 19, 2016 at 8:46 pm

    @efgoldman: Its in there!

  87. 87.

    Schlemazel

    December 19, 2016 at 8:46 pm

    @Patricia Kayden:
    Typical liberal! YOU’RE the ones who discriminate!!

  88. 88.

    Patricia Kayden

    December 19, 2016 at 8:47 pm

    Don’t blame FLOTUS for not wanting to run for office. She has done enough.

  89. 89.

    lamh36

    December 19, 2016 at 8:47 pm

    love it…”I’m NOT coy…I’m pretty direct…I’m not interested in playing games…”
    #OprahandFLOTUS

  90. 90.

    Patricia Kayden

    December 19, 2016 at 8:47 pm

    @Schlemazel: Yes, we’re the real racists!!!!

  91. 91.

    Roger Moore

    December 19, 2016 at 8:48 pm

    @lamh36:

    I’m really looking forward to Hidden Figures guys…I hope EVERYONE, but especially POC go to see it on Christmas Day.

    Most people won’t be able to. It’s opening on a few screens on Christmas so it’s Oscar qualified, but it won’t hit wide release until January 6th.

  92. 92.

    Adam L Silverman

    December 19, 2016 at 8:48 pm

    @Vicious Babushka: You’re quite welcome. And happy birthday!

    Crazy question: several years ago in a comment at LGF you asked a military related question. I found your website/blog and emailed you a response. Did you get it? And I cannot for the life of me remember the question.

  93. 93.

    lamh36

    December 19, 2016 at 8:48 pm

    “don’t take this job cavalierly…this jobs is HARD”
    #OprahandFLOTUS

  94. 94.

    lamh36

    December 19, 2016 at 8:49 pm

    “Hope is a necessary concept…what else do you have if you don’t have hope?”
    FLOTUS

  95. 95.

    Patricia Kayden

    December 19, 2016 at 8:50 pm

    @JPL: We all may be in rehab when Trump really gets going with his nightmarish agenda. Sigh.

    Not even going to ask what Malia is supposedly in rehab for.

  96. 96.

    Patricia Kayden

    December 19, 2016 at 8:51 pm

    And here comes cool Barack!!

  97. 97.

    Elizabelle

    December 19, 2016 at 8:53 pm

    They’re going someplace warm, on that helicopter.

  98. 98.

    Elizabelle

    December 19, 2016 at 8:54 pm

    Adam is my hero, for giving us a fresh thread. With tasty pastries.

  99. 99.

    lamh36

    December 19, 2016 at 8:56 pm

    shorter FLOTUS on being asked again if she was running for office…

    NO…

    #OprahandFLOTUS

  100. 100.

    LAO

    December 19, 2016 at 8:56 pm

    @efgoldman: I didn’t feel a disturbance in the force. I blame the puppy, which despite being very cute, is sucking my will to live some days.

  101. 101.

    Patricia Kayden

    December 19, 2016 at 8:56 pm

    The Obamas have chemistry so not surprising that their stay in the White House has drawn them closer.

  102. 102.

    Adam L Silverman

    December 19, 2016 at 8:57 pm

    @efgoldman: That’s a completely separate recipe post:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasty

  103. 103.

    Patricia Kayden

    December 19, 2016 at 8:57 pm

    @efgoldman: Lol. No kids but I was a rebellious teenager way back when.

  104. 104.

    Major Major Major Major

    December 19, 2016 at 8:57 pm

    @Elizabelle: remember how liberals were evil disrespectful monsters undeserving of democracy for singing hey hey goodbye when W got on the helicopter? Good times.

  105. 105.

    Elizabelle

    December 19, 2016 at 8:57 pm

    NY Times op ed: Time to End the Electoral College.

    Well yeah.

    You didn’t get to beat up on Hillary without a disaster happening. Maybe you guys could have thought that through a bit.

    But does sound like the EC should go.

    Also, I like increasing the number of congress critters, as Mnemosyne suggested. Give California a heap of new ones.

  106. 106.

    MomSense

    December 19, 2016 at 8:58 pm

    @lamh36:

    I keep reading that hashtag orphanandflotus. And I do feel a bit like an orphan when I think of them leaving the White House. Unpresidented as of 1/20/17 at 12:01 p.m.

  107. 107.

    Patricia Kayden

    December 19, 2016 at 8:59 pm

    @Elizabelle: Jamaica!! Just joking. Probably Hawaii, I would guess.

  108. 108.

    Patricia Kayden

    December 19, 2016 at 8:59 pm

    That was sweet!

  109. 109.

    lamh36

    December 19, 2016 at 8:59 pm

    “@Oprah and @FLOTUS on the road…”
    I’d SOOOOO watch that on tv
    #OprahandFLOTUS

  110. 110.

    Elizabelle

    December 19, 2016 at 9:00 pm

    @Major Major Major Major: I have repressed memories of all of that. Found a bunch of newspapers I’d saved about the run-up to the Iraq War — for reading at a saner time — and tossed them. Just no longer any interest. W and Cheney were a fucking disaster, and the red states went large for a bigger disaster after that.

    I am so wondering where in California to move. Sane state.

    And: the Oprah interview ends. Very fast hour.

  111. 111.

    LAO

    December 19, 2016 at 9:01 pm

    @efgoldman: she’s about 8 1/2 months. Right in the middle of adolescence. You know the point when all of her training magically disappears. Today she destroyed her 5th dog bed in 10 weeks. Thankfully, she’s currently snoring away beside me on the couch.

  112. 112.

    SiubhanDuinne

    December 19, 2016 at 9:02 pm

    @JPL:

    Not according to the National Enquirer. Malia is in rehab. The young lady you saw getting off the plane in Hawaii must have been a body double.

    That’s nothing. Malia has hit rock bottom. She is desperate. Her father, the POTUS, refuses to have anything to do with her. Her FLOTUS mother won’t speak to her. Her sister Sasha has disowned her.

    The devastation one toke can cause, I swear….

  113. 113.

    Elizabelle

    December 19, 2016 at 9:04 pm

    @LAO: What kind of puppy? Besides “active!”

  114. 114.

    SiubhanDuinne

    December 19, 2016 at 9:05 pm

    @Elizabelle:

    Curious if anyone has seen the biopic Jackie? Natalie Portman is said to have turned in an Oscar-worthy performance. Am thinking about going to see it, maybe tomorrow or Thursday.

  115. 115.

    Elizabelle

    December 19, 2016 at 9:06 pm

    @efgoldman: Love on an island. Hmmmmm. Fits right in with the Obamas going somewhere warm.

    But yeah.

    Death by stupidity in a red state. (As you know, though, I live in Terry McAuliffe Land, so safe for now.) Or death by quake. I’ll take the quake.

  116. 116.

    LAO

    December 19, 2016 at 9:06 pm

    @Elizabelle: Southern mutt (beagle, spaniel, pitt). Small, currently 26lbs. Very cute, but sorta evil.

  117. 117.

    Elizabelle

    December 19, 2016 at 9:07 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: I want to see it.

    Thought it would depress me but, hey. Real life.

  118. 118.

    Iowa Old Lady

    December 19, 2016 at 9:08 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: The thing that always gets to me is that eventually it becomes clear some story is false. There are no death panels, for instance. But there’s never any moment when someone has to take it back.

  119. 119.

    Elizabelle

    December 19, 2016 at 9:08 pm

    @LAO: Part Beagle! Love them. 26 pounds is a good size. Do you think she’ll get much bigger?

    Her is busy, hmmm?

  120. 120.

    LAO

    December 19, 2016 at 9:12 pm

    @Elizabelle: She probably won’t get much bigger. Weird fact, if her howling didn’t give her away, Maggie has yellow irises, which according to her vet, is a genetic trait found only in lemon beagles. So everything but the beagle is currently a guess.

  121. 121.

    lamh36

    December 19, 2016 at 9:12 pm

    @Roger Moore: Damn! It’s showing in DFW, but not here in NOLA…

  122. 122.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    December 19, 2016 at 9:13 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: Hey, they tried to warn you all with “Reefer Madness”.

  123. 123.

    Elizabelle

    December 19, 2016 at 9:13 pm

    @LAO: Howling? The word is baying.

    Lemon beagles. Any beagle is a love.

  124. 124.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    December 19, 2016 at 9:14 pm

    @efgoldman: Gawd, unless you’re right on the coast, the state isn’t falling into the Pacific(at that point it’s due to waves hitting the coast).

  125. 125.

    RSR

    December 19, 2016 at 9:17 pm

    fyi, in the Philly region, Federal Donuts make sufganiyot as special order items: https://store.cooknsolo.com/collections/federal-donuts/products/chanukah-minis

    There’s also a Christmas milk & cookies donut for we goyim: https://store.cooknsolo.com/collections/federal-donuts/products/milk-cookies-minis

  126. 126.

    lamh36

    December 19, 2016 at 9:19 pm

    Mahn…I’m gonna be sad when PBO leaves, but I’ma be crying crocodile tears when I see Michelle O and the girls walk away from the White House!!

  127. 127.

    LAO

    December 19, 2016 at 9:21 pm

    @Elizabelle: I stand corrected!

    @efgoldman: The size of dogs in NYC is crazy. But what amazes me is the current popularity of the Australian Shepherd. There are 4 in my apartment building and I meet tons of them at the dog park. I can’t imagine that they are happy in a city like NY.

  128. 128.

    MomSense

    December 19, 2016 at 9:22 pm

    @lamh36:

    I’m already crying about it.

  129. 129.

    debbie

    December 19, 2016 at 9:22 pm

    @Adam L Silverman:

    There is no better latke than Nana’s latke.

  130. 130.

    Major Major Major Major

    December 19, 2016 at 9:25 pm

    @BillinGlendaleCA: I mean part of the southwest will fall into the ocean eventually.

    You know, a few hundred thousand years or something. But if that keeps people from moving to the coasts, more seats on the train for me!

  131. 131.

    Roger Moore

    December 19, 2016 at 9:28 pm

    @Major Major Major Major:

    You know, a few hundred thousand years or something.

    More like 10 million or so, assuming current trends continue. The key is that the part that’s moving relative to the rest of North American is actually moving sideways, not directly away. So LA is going to have to slide all the way up the coast to San Francisco at 2-3 inches per year before we can ever turn into an island.

  132. 132.

    Major Major Major Major

    December 19, 2016 at 9:31 pm

    @Roger Moore: ah yes, that’s right.

    We can have a big party!

  133. 133.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    December 19, 2016 at 9:33 pm

    Looking south from LA City Hall.

    This shot was doomed from the beginning, shot into the sun with a fisheye. But I made it artsy, and I think it kind of worked.

  134. 134.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    December 19, 2016 at 9:34 pm

    @efgoldman:

    You guys are no fun at all!

    Roger went to CalTech, what’d you expect.

  135. 135.

    Elizabelle

    December 19, 2016 at 9:35 pm

    Speaking of the West Coast, I am so sad about the Ghost Ship warehouse fire. Oakland. 36 victims.

    We needed the artists and young people who lost their lives. I think art is going to get us through the Cheetoh Fraud-ito years.

    Maybe some lives will be saved, in that other artists colonies realize they have to step up their fire prevention. But it’s a real issue, housing and work spaces for the creatives, and for any young people.

    I would have thought a place like that was cool, and can see hanging out, but would have been wary about the rabbit warren part of it. Safety squirrel tendencies.

    The pre-conflagration pictures are cool. It was quite the installation. But Jeebus, does it look flammable.

    Tragic.

  136. 136.

    Adrift

    December 19, 2016 at 9:36 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: are you shure you didn’t mean http://imgur.com/823QpTp ?

  137. 137.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    December 19, 2016 at 9:36 pm

    @Elizabelle: That shows why you need regulation, like fire codes.

  138. 138.

    Major Major Major Major

    December 19, 2016 at 9:38 pm

    @efgoldman: @BillinGlendaleCA: I suggested a big party.

  139. 139.

    Elizabelle

    December 19, 2016 at 9:38 pm

    @BillinGlendaleCA: Truly.

    And it’s good to pay for inspectors. Government can work. When you fund it adequately.

  140. 140.

    lamh36

    December 19, 2016 at 9:40 pm

    @efgoldman: can’t edit now…so…

  141. 141.

    MomSense

    December 19, 2016 at 9:40 pm

    @Elizabelle:

    Yes we do need the creatives. I wish we could find them because they struggle so to support themselves and their art.

  142. 142.

    raven

    December 19, 2016 at 9:40 pm

    Whew, the unbirthday party for the princess was a rollicking success. Lots of good folks, eats and just enough munchkins to keep it lively!

  143. 143.

    Major Major Major Major

    December 19, 2016 at 9:43 pm

    @efgoldman: parties are fun!

  144. 144.

    Adam L Silverman

    December 19, 2016 at 9:47 pm

    @Adrift: yes

  145. 145.

    SiubhanDuinne

    December 19, 2016 at 9:56 pm

    @efgoldman:

    “Crocodile tears” means you don’t really mean it.

    From “The Elephant’s Child” (from Just-So Stories) by Rudyard Kipling:

    ‘Come hither, Little One,’ said the Crocodile, ‘for I am the Crocodile,’ and he wept crocodile-tears to show it was quite true.

    Then the Elephant’s Child grew all breathless, and panted, and kneeled down on the bank and said, ‘You are the very person I have been looking for all these long days. Will you please tell me what you have for dinner?’

    ‘Come hither, Little One,’ said the Crocodile, ‘and I’ll whisper.’

    Then the Elephant’s Child put his head down close to the Crocodile’s musky, tusky mouth, and the Crocodile caught him by his little nose, which up to that very week, day, hour, and minute, had been no bigger than a boot, though much more useful.

    ‘I think, said the Crocodile–and he said it between his teeth, like this–‘I think to-day I will begin with Elephant’s Child!’

    At this, O Best Beloved, the Elephant’s Child was much annoyed, and he said, speaking through his nose, like this, ‘Led go! You are hurtig be!’

  146. 146.

    schrodingers_cat

    December 19, 2016 at 10:00 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: Aah Kipling, the racist SOB who had a way with words, wrote eloquently in defense of another SOB who was responsible for slaughtering hundreds of peaceful protestors.

  147. 147.

    SiubhanDuinne

    December 19, 2016 at 10:18 pm

    @schrodingers_cat:

    I’m not going to try to defend Kipling’s racism or colonial outlook, but I can’t deny my entire childhood, and I was brought up on the Just-So Stories, Stalky & Co., and of course The Jungle Book, along with dozens of his best-known poems. I don’t apologise for any of it. I recognise the offensive attitudes, I acknowledge that he was a product of his times, and I rejoice that we are, Deo volente, a little better now than a century ago.

    All that said, the “crocodile tears” quote was to the point, and nothing in the passage I cited was particularly racist.

  148. 148.

    schrodingers_cat

    December 19, 2016 at 10:28 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: I did acknowledge that RK was eloquent. Are we really better. Kipling’s attitudes are alive and well. I can no longer enjoy his written word knowing that he condoned the killing of unarmed protestors and started a fund for the butcher of Jallianwala Bagh, collecting thousands of pounds.
    You on the other hand, have nothing to apologize for.

  149. 149.

    Mnemosyne

    December 19, 2016 at 10:29 pm

    @schrodingers_cat:
    @SiubhanDuinne:

    Kipling is so strange, because he seemed to genuinely love India and Indian culture, but hate the actual people who lived there. He’s like the people who think the Ancient Greeks were the greatest civilization ever but hate modern Greeks.

  150. 150.

    schrodingers_cat

    December 19, 2016 at 10:50 pm

    @Mnemosyne: He probably never interacted with Indians other those who were his servants. British India was a segregated society.

  151. 151.

    Cathie from Canada

    December 20, 2016 at 12:07 am

    For some odd and unknown (to me anyway) reason, in Canada we call jelly donuts “Bismarks”.
    Just thought I would contribute that to the discussion….

  152. 152.

    Steeplejack (tablet)

    December 20, 2016 at 12:36 am

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    Kipling’s Plain Tales from the Hills is a phenomenal collection of short stories, on my shelf next to Joyce’s Dubliners, Salinger’s Nine Stories, Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio, etc.

  153. 153.

    What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us?

    December 20, 2016 at 9:46 am

    There are many great Christmas cookies, but only one is the best…and that is the Swedish Pepparkakor (translation: spice cookie). My family has been making them using this recipe for at least three generations (me & sister, mom and dad, and paternal grandparents). Here it is:

    1/2 lb. butter
    1 and 1/2 cups granulated sugar
    1 Tablespoon corn syrup
    2 teaspoons baking soda
    1 egg
    3 and 1/4 to 3 and 1/2 cups all purpose flour (amount varies to get the dough to the right stiffness)
    2 teaspoons cinnamon
    1 and 1/2 teaspoons ground cloves
    1 and 1/2 teaspoons ground ginger
    juice and grated zest from one orange

    Sift the flour with the baking soda and spices
    Cream the butter with the sugar until light and fluffy.
    Add syrup, egg and orange juice and zest
    Add flour mixture and mix thoroughly
    Chill dough thoroughly in refrigerator.

    To roll out the dough it really helps to use a well floured cloth rolling pin sleeve and a well floured pastry cloth to roll the dough out on. Otherwise the dough will stick to both your countertop and the rolling pin and will be impossible to cut.

    Roll dough very thin, and use cookie cutters to cut dough into cookies. Place cookies on baking sheet and sprinkle with colored sugar granules (we always use green and white because Christmas). Bake at 400 degrees until brown – should be somewhere between 4-8 minutes depending on how thin you’ve rolled the dough.

    The leftover dough from cutting the cookies can be chilled and re-rolled once. After that it picks up so much flour that it’s too brittle to roll out again. They’re a wonderful combination of spicy, sweet and citrusy.

  154. 154.

    Elizabelle

    December 20, 2016 at 11:16 am

    @What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us?:

    Thank you! Looks delicious. I worry a bit about the rolling out, but looks worth a try.

  155. 155.

    What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us?

    December 20, 2016 at 11:21 am

    @Elizabelle: As long as the cloth rolling pin sleeve and pastry cloth are well floured the rolling is pretty easy. The chilled dough is very firm and when you first start you think there’s no way you’ll be able to roll it out thin but once you get going it’s pretty easy. Still they are a fair amount of work but worth it IMO.

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