Food Friday: Portzelkje

aka New Year's cookies (though they're not really a cookie). This recipe makes about four dozen.

The dough

Frying

Cooked

Coated with icing sugar

Ingredients

• 5ml sugar (1 teaspoon)
• 65ml warm water (1/4 cup)
  
• 1 package dry yeast (5 ml or 1 teaspoon)

• 375ml water (1.5 cups)
• 375ml milk (1.5 cups)
• 1/4 cup sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 tablespoon butter
• 2 eggs, beaten
• 2 cups raisins
• flour

Directions

1. Dissolve the 5ml sugar in the 60ml warm water; sprinkle yeast on top and let stand 10 minutes.
   
2. Add remaining ingredients - including enough flour to make a fairly thick batter.
   
3. Let rise in a warm place (such as an oven with the oven light turned on) until double in bulk (roughly an hour).
4. Drop by spoonsful into hot, deep fat and fry till golden brown.
   
5. Sprinkle with icing sugar and serve (or serve as is with a bowl of icing sugar for people to dip in their own).