DEEP FRIED PASTRY STRIPS
"Zagareliai"

Recipe #1: Ingredients

• 2 Cups of Flour
  
• 2 TBSP Butter
• 1/2 Cup of Sour Cream
• 3 Egg Yolks
• 1 TBSP Sugarpice
• 1 tsp. Rum [Optional]
• 1 tsp. Salt

Recipe #2: Ingredients

• 2 Cups Flour
• 2 Eggs
• 3 Egg yolks
• 2 TBSP. Butter
• 1 tsp. Salt
• 1 TBSP. Alcohol sprits

Recipe #3: Ingredients

• 2 Cups Flour
  
• 2 TBSP Sour cream
  
• 4 Egg yolks
  
• 1 TBSP Alcohol sprits
  
• 1/2 tsp. Salt

Directions

Zagareliai are delicate pastry dough cookies, deep fried in fat. It is best to use lard or oil for deep frying these cookies.

The main ingredients in Zagareliai are flour, eggs and sour cream.

1. Kneed ingredients together.
2. Beat dough with a rolling pin, folding the dough towards the center until blisters begin to form on dough.
3. Cool dough to set.
4. Roll 1/8 inch thick.
5. Using a pastry cutting wheel, cut into 4" to 5" long and 1" wide strips.
6. Make a slit lengthwise in the center of each strip and slip one end of the strip through this slit.

7. Bring fat to a boil in a shallow, wide pot.
8. Remove from heat and add one TBSP whiskey or a few slices of raw potato to prevent pastry strips from burning. The fat will bubble up with this addition.
9. Wait until bubbling action stops, then put back on heat and bring to a boil.

Tips

Zagareliai must be put into boiling fat. A pastry strip put into the fat must immediately rise to the surface and sizzle. If this happens, then the fat is just right for deep frying. When one side of the pastry strip is brown, turn it over using a fork. Finish frying. When done, place zagareliai on paper towels so excess fat is absorbed.

Sprinkle each pastry with powdered sugar flavored with vanilla.

From Lithuanian Cookery
Compiled by: Izabele Sinkeviciute
Darbininkas

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