Polish fried dough balls | Food Production and Preservation | Forums

I'm giving up trying to figure out the name, my brother and I have been trying to remember and i have googled everything I could think of. Plaplooski, pladumki, ect. We use to have this all the time as kids growing up for the holidays.

My brother and I have been reconstructing the recipe and have gotten pretty close I think

So I grabbed some flour, sugar and yeast

I measured out 2 cups of flour

and added a 1/4 cup of sugar

I took a cup of warm water and dumped in a couple tablespoons of sugar and yeast

after resting 5 minutes the yeast had activated

I dumped the yeast mixture into the flour and started working it, sprinkling a little flour as needed if it was to sticky, you want the dough to be elastic, I then set it by the woos stove to proof for a hour

it more than doubled in size

so I punched it down

and reformed a ball to rest again

this can be used for bread or pizza dough as well

the dough doubled again after proofing

I punched it down

and formed some balls with the dough

my wife had boiled some potatoes, no need to waste the water

I dumped the balls into it

and started melting some butter

the balls were done

so I tossed them in butter

and this is the point where my brother and I disagree, he says bake, I say sautee, since he's older, I baked

I had left them in the woodstove for about 45 minutes and got tired of waiting, so I threw them in a pan with some butter in the middle, so it melted down to them

I flipped them over after 10 minutes and browned the other side and drained them on towels

a little salt and pepper, and dinner was served, closest thing to my polish youth, merry x-mas

I think groinkick is right, I think they are kluskis