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On Hanukkah, the Festival of Lights, fried foods are served to celebrate the oil lamp that burned for eight miraculous nights. These Moroccan donuts are usually dipped in warm honey, but you can use granulated sugar as well. (Similar fritters, called yoyo in Tunisia, are made with an egg dough that is leavened with baking powder instead of yeast and is perfumed with vanilla and orange zest.) The dough is easier to work with if you add the eggs and a bit of oil or melted margarine. Th