Klenater

8 ingredients
14 steps

Ingredients

  • 4 tablespoons butter
  • 5 egg yolks
  • 4 tablespoons sugar
  • rind from 1 lemon
  • 1 tablespoon vodka or 1 tablespoon cognac
  • 1 1/2 cups plain flour
  • oil (for frying)
  • sugar and cinnamon, for sprinkling

Directions

  1. 1
    Melt the butter and set aside to cool.
  2. 2
    Cream the egg yolks with the sugar.
  3. 3
    Mix in the rest of the ingredients to form an elastic dough.
  4. 4
    Wrap in tin foil and let it rest in the refrigerator for a couple of hours or overnight.
  5. 5
    Roll out the dough onto a floured surface.
  6. 6
    Take a knife and cut strips about 1 inch wide and 4 inches long.
  7. 7
    For the special klenat appearance, you cut a hole in the middle of every strip, take one end of the strip and put it through the hole in the middle and pull straight through the hole.
  8. 8
    It makes sort of a knot in the middle of the pastry.
  9. 9
    Heat oil in a pan.
  10. 10
    Try it for the right temperature by dropping a piece of bread in the oil, if it turns golden in 1 minute, the oil is the right temperature.
  11. 11
    Put some of the klenates in at a time and cook them until golden brown.
  12. 12
    Drain on kitchen towel.
  13. 13
    Turn them over in a mixture of cinnamon and sugar.
  14. 14
    Enjoy!

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