I’ve realized the apple cider donuts from the grocery store…

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Anonymous wrote:They aren't making them fresh at the orchard either

Stribling does. They open their bake house Labor Day weekend.

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Anonymous wrote:The orchard ones are trucked in from Sysco.

Right? People are such gullible saps. All the apples and products they sell probably aren't even from apples they grew. It's all a scam.

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Anonymous wrote:A fresh, properly made apple cider doughnut doesn’t taste greasy at all. It has a crisp exterior with a pillowy soft interior.

They are almost always full of grease because it's part-time workers who don't care frying too many too fast and the oil temp drops, so the donuts absorb all the oil. They might taste good for 5 minutes... then you're getting bubble guts from all that oil. Nasty!

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Anonymous wrote:But then how will you get to spend an afternoon around a bunch of wasps

Do you mean the insects, the white people, or both?

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The NYT has a delightful recipe for Apple Cider Donut bundt cake -- I use it to make muffins. It's better than the TJ's donuts by far (which are cake donuts anyway so not really different).

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Some of you have just never had proper fresh apple cider donuts and it shows.

Great Country Farms has great ones.

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Ive never had a grocery store one that came close to the ones I grew up eating at a local orchard. Those were special and it was the highlight of every trip to watch the antique machine go through the entire process from batter to frying and then eat them warm. I was so sad when the orchard was sold off to developers. I dream about those donuts.

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Anonymous wrote:They aren't making them fresh at the orchard either

I don’t know what orchards you’ve been to, but the ones I go to absolutely do. You literally can see them pour the batter into the fryer.

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Anonymous wrote:The NYT has a delightful recipe for Apple Cider Donut bundt cake -- I use it to make muffins. It's better than the TJ's donuts by far (which are cake donuts anyway so not really different).

every apple cider donut is a cake donut.

never seen a yeasted apple cider doughnut-yeasted donuts in general are pretty rare around this area.

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Anonymous wrote:The NYT has a delightful recipe for Apple Cider Donut bundt cake -- I use it to make muffins. It's better than the TJ's donuts by far (which are cake donuts anyway so not really different).

every apple cider donut is a cake donut.

never seen a yeasted apple cider doughnut-yeasted donuts in general are pretty rare around this area.[/quote

Krispy Kreme specializes in yeasted donuts. They don't have apple cider though. The cake pumpkin donuts aren't too bad fresh from the deep fryer.

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If you think they make apple cider doughnuts at 99% of orchards, I have a bridge to sell you. Orchards get them from commercial sources that mass produce them. It's not like orchards are taking apples from their trees, making cider, making dough, fermenting it, then frying if to make doughnuts. People have a romanticized idea of orchards in their head when they're often just more expensive commercial grocery stores.

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Anonymous wrote:I will eat any donut anytime, BUT

the fresh apple cider donuts at the orchard are a very specific experience that cannot be replicated by nuking a grocery store donut, sorry.

Completely agree. Foliage, apple smell in the air, fresh pressed cider, hot donuts.

Fwiw, i haven't found a comparable donut in stores to the ones we get at the orchard we go to outside Boston each year.

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Anonymous wrote:If you think they make apple cider doughnuts at 99% of orchards, I have a bridge to sell you. Orchards get them from commercial sources that mass produce them. It's not like orchards are taking apples from their trees, making cider, making dough, fermenting it, then frying if to make doughnuts. People have a romanticized idea of orchards in their head when they're often just more expensive commercial grocery stores.

We watch them cook them, they sometimes run out and we have to wait for a new batch and they a piping hot and tossed in a bag.

You need to find a better orchard.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t think the orchards even make the ones they sell. I think they throw pre made ones in the fryer for a second to make them hot and then charge crazy prices for them.

Unfortunately, I think that’s now true and so they’ve sort of loss the appeal for me. I used to get fabulous ones at a place in western Massachusetts and could also sometimes get good ones at a place in davidsonville. Now they all taste like preservatives.
I might just make my own. It’s not actually that hard.

Was it Atkins farm, pp? Miss that place!

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The NYT has a delightful recipe for Apple Cider Donut bundt cake -- I use it to make muffins. It's better than the TJ's donuts by far (which are cake donuts anyway so not really different).

every apple cider donut is a cake donut.

never seen a yeasted apple cider doughnut-yeasted donuts in general are pretty rare around this area.[/quote

Krispy Kreme specializes in yeasted donuts. They don't have apple cider though. The cake pumpkin donuts aren't too bad fresh from the deep fryer.

KK tastes like crap though.