Ellen’s Crullers

Crullers for most American cooks were irregular shapes of dough deep-fried in lard. Some people cut them in diamonds or strips, or even animal shapes. Several of the oldest medieval recipes for crullers flavored them with saffron.

Americans borrowed the term cruller from the Lower Rhineland, where it is used both by the Dutch and Germans but with many different localized meanings. In general, krullen meant rolled, but the manner of rolling varied from place to p