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came back to this post to remember this place, but, perusing their site i'm not sure, are the donuts available only on weekends?

i suppose i could always call tomorrow but just wondering. pity, was hoping that'd be a benefit of unemployment, going when it'd be less crowded :p

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nope! they are available all the time, but the fresh fresh ones might only be made on the weekends, but the ones I got in the package baked on site were very very good!

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awesome, thanks so much! do you recall how much they were?

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3 dollars for 6

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overstim.livejournal.com

well ive been on weekends and weekdays around fall and they always had them fresh- I thought it was maybe just a fall thing but I got them last July too. So I think they have them all the time. They have a bakery on site.

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awesome, thanks, i'm probably going to go tomorrow, i can't stop thinking about them!

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sekala.livejournal.com

what

overstim said. Wilson Farm: http://www.wilsonfarm.com/

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taxine.livejournal.com

3rding this, their cider donuts are awesome.

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this is fantastic news.

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surrealestate.livejournal.com

At first I read this as you offering your car for donuts.

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cider donuts are nearly worth a car.

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clevernonsense.livejournal.com

actually, just for information that could lead to donuts

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plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com

I'd get a car? Time to make the donuts!

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eclecticavatar.livejournal.com

http://www.idylwildefarm.com/

In Acton, a pretty drive out Route 2. It's like a wonderland! They're produce and meats are amazing and they have pumpkins and crafts and homemade breads and cider and jams. So fun!

Really, if you get on 2 west and just go, you'll pass a ton of great farmstands and shops that sell this sort of stuff.

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qwrrty.livejournal.com

The farmers market in Copley Square has good cider doughnuts. (When does it start?)

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bex77

I'm not sure what a "cider donut" is, but I think I've seen them at Verna's on Mass Ave?
http://www.vernaspastry.com/index.html

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They don't have cider doughnuts here but they are amazing for every other kind of doughnut.

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haptotrope.livejournal.com

http://www.honeypothill.com/activities.php

had some... also a hedge maze.

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wench33.livejournal.com

I love cider donuts! Thanks to you posting this now I know where to get them local!

Edited Date: 2009-09-14 09:08 pm (UTC)

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Heh, my kitchen! I just made some on Saturday and they are AWESOME (this was my first time).

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where did you find the recipe, I saw your facebook post about using a small pot to cook them in and was intrigued.

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It was this recipe (http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/326625) but I have to warn you that we ended up adding like at least a half a cup of flour to make the dough "rollable" so don't freak out if you have to do that. Also, the recipe calls for the oil to be at 375 but I quickly discovered that this produced doughnuts that were much too dark. 340-350 worked much better. If you are doing this in a pan as small as I was, you'll have a lot of opportunity to experiment. :-)

The only thing you really need that the average kitchen is not likely to have is a decent frying thermometer. Also unless you have a real deep fryer, the useful trick you'll need to keep in mind is that you will always need to turn the heat up when you put a whole doughnut in the oil, otherwise the coldness of the doughnut will cause the oil to cool off too much.

In spite of all this writing here, they're really pretty hard to mess up to the point of being not tasty.

Good luck!

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Thanks! this sounds like an awesome project!

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*definitely* worth the effort, especially since you can eat them while they're still warm. I'm pretty sure I've never eaten so many doughnuts in one day. :-)

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