Guanti and/or Chruscik

photo by Ron B.
- Ready In:
- 35mins
- Ingredients:
- 19
- Yields:
-
24-48 guanti
ingredients
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For Guanti
- 3 eggs
- 2 tablespoons Crisco, melted (shortening or leaf lard)
- 2 tablespoons milk
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- 1⁄4 teaspoon vanilla
- 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
- 2 cups flour, sifted
- oil or shortening (for frying)
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For Chruscik
- 3 cups flour, sifted (plus extra flour for kneading and cutting)
- 1⁄2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1⁄2 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 teaspoon brandy (M-I-L uses blackberry brandy)
- 3⁄4 cup sugar
- 3 eggs
- 1⁄4 cup cream cheese or 1/4 cup sour cream
- 1⁄4 teaspoon salt
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 1⁄4 cup milk
- oil or shortening, for deep fat frying
directions
- Guanti: In a large bowl, beat eggs until light, add sugar, milk, Crisco, salt and vanilla, and mix well.
- Beat in flour, until dough is formed.
- Using about 1/4 of the dough at a time, roll dough to wafer thinness on a floured board (or put dough through a pasta machine).
- Using a dough cutting wheel, or knife, cut the dough into strips about 2 1/2 inches wide by 4 inches long.
- Continue with remaining dough.
- Deep fry the dough strips in hot oil or Crisco, until lightly golden (about 1-2 minutes).
- Remove from pan and drain on paper towels or brown paper.
- Sprinkle with powdered sugar OR lightly coat with a honey syrup (honey thinned with water) before serving.
- Chrúscik (pronounced kris-chick-e): Mix together flour, salt and baking powder.
- Melt butter and cream cheese with milk.
- In a large bowl, combine sugar, eggs, vanilla and brandy and mix well.
- Add flour mixture and cream cheese mixture alternately to the egg mixture, mix well after each addition.
- Dough should be soft.
- On a floured pastry cloth, roll dough 1/8 inch thick.
- Cut dough into 3 inch strips.
- Cut a small slit in the center of each strip.
- Pull one end of the strip through the slit in the center, forming a"twist" in the middle.
- Fry in hot oil until light golden on each side.
- Remove from pan, drain on brown paper.
- Sprinkle with powdered sugar.
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RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
Dee514
United States
I'm married (46 years to the same lucky guy) and have 2 kids, a daughter 41, a son 36, and 2 beautiful grand daughters (8 yrs and 6 yrs). I have always enjoyed cooking and baking, especially breads :) One of my favorite quotes:?? Computers are like air conditioners; they stop working when you open Windows.