Nov 1, 2020
Is it even Halloween if you don’t go get cider doughnuts at the local apple farm on their last weekend making them 🤔
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Is it even Halloween if you don’t go get cider doughnuts at the local apple farm on their last weekend making them 🤔
As the season of thankfulness turns towards the holidays of lights, we find doughnuts at the intersection. It's what road trip day dreams are made of but also a classic end-of-the-harvest-season food. Facing down chilly weather and the very shortest days of the year inspires a craving for deep fried dough that leaves fingers, chins and sweater fronts twinkling with cast-off sugar. At the farmers market and road side stands you might find cider doughnuts, and making apple fritters at home is a good project for a quiet winter morning. In between is the opportunity to eat jelly doughnuts during Hanukkah. The classic Hanukkah doughnut is made from a yeasted dough that forms airy bubbles, leaving room for a generous slug of fruit jelly or vanilla or chocolate custard in the center. Apple cider doughnuts are a Northeast tradition that dates to the 1950s when an enterprising Russian immigrant sold dry doughnut mixes and doughnut making machines to orchards to drum up sales during u-pick season. The doughnuts are made with baking soda, resulting in a craggy exterior and cake-like texture, apple cider that's been cooked-down into a syrup, and mulling spices like cinnamon and nutmeg. If you are frying at home we have two apple fritter recipes to point you to: this one for apple rings dredged in an egg and flour batter, and this one for cake-like nuggets made with shredded apple.
Cider Doughnuts
This is a strange roundabout way for me to thank the Mitchell House intern for all her hard work at the Mitchell House and the MMA for the summer of 2018. Kelly Bernatzky just entered her senior year at Vassar College this month. She came to the MMA via the MMA-Vassar College Fellowship that is funded by a Vassar alum and Nantucket resident for many years to help continue to foster the connection between our two organizations – one that we have had since the founding of the MMA in 1902. Kelly is from western Massachusetts.
During her Mitchell House orientation, as we made our way to several other island historic sites for her to get a better idea in a very short time about what Nantucket and its history entails, we chatted as we walked. Both about work and Nantucket, but also in a get to know you sort of way. At some pointed, I professed my undying love for Atkins Cider Donuts. I graduated from Mt. Holyoke College and any fall meeting or dorm activity or gathering also featured cider donuts and cider. In fact, parents could order Atkins Exam packages for us during exams – but it was always minus the donuts as they used to only make them in the fall. Now they make them all the time. Shipping is a bit cost prohibitive on the donuts but oh are they delicious and to me, none compare.
Well, Kelly’s mother and uncle came for a visit and on a Monday morning in June, and I was presented with two bags of cider donuts. I was so excited that it was a bit embarrassing. I am happy to report that I was able to thank the donut carrier in person – and on this blog want to make another thank you! Yum!
I have already eaten all the donuts, sorry – though I did share with Kelly. In fact, they sat by my desk all day and I had SERIOUS will power in the fact that I ate only one! The smell drove me do-nuts!
Thank you, Kelly – not just for the doughnuts – but a fantastic summer!
JNLF
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Sweet Song
It will be forever before I can ever write it, if I write it, but Folk!Katniss and Ciderdoughnut!Peeta = “Sweet Song” It’s embryonic, but it has a name and a file and an opening line. “He always felt sorry for the new acts as he walked into the nearly empty tent.”
I have however gleaned enormous amounts of hysterical material from watching YouTube vids of people attending music festivals.
P.S. If this title is already taken by another well-ish known fic, tell me so and I’ll fix it. Thanks!
Saturday April 25th 2015 --
Today I took a sanity lunch break from my school projects and visited the Flatbread Company in Canton with my boyfriend. Their flatbread pizzas are so delicious! Flatbread is all about hand-made, organic, and fair trade. The inside of this restaurant is beautiful! I couldn't help but snap some photos and share them here.
We tried their Taco Pizza special, which was yummy, and for dessert we had their heavenly Cider doughnuts with graham cracker ice cream.
Their website is super cute! http://flatbreadcompany.com/FlatbreadCanton2010.html