Name: Jam Doughnut
Ingredients: 212 ml whole milk at 23.8°C; 10 g instant yeast; 518 g flour — T55 preferred; 74 g granulated sugar; 120 g granulated sugar; 250 g frozen blackcurrant; 111 g whole eggs; 9 g salt; 9 g vanilla paste; 55 g unsalted butter at room temperature — cut into ½ inch pieces; 200 g black cherry purée; Vanilla sugar to coat; Sunflower oil for deep frying; 500 g frozen black cherries-whole; 40 g crème de cassis; 20 g apple pectin

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Chefs' Knowledge

By Chandos Elletson

Published 2022

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Who doesn’t love a doughnut? Soft, deep fried yeast dough filled with jam and covered with sugar. It’s the ultimate teatime treat that every child loves. But, like many well-known dishes the doughnut has been spoilt by poor imitations of the real thing.

If you take the time to make them properly the real joy of the doughnut will return and you will find that they can be far less sweet and much more refined than the supermarket versions that come in packets of 6. Or the ones that are