Instructions:

Mix the yeast, water and sugar, eggs, vanilla, and salt together. Blend well and stir inmost of the flour to form a soft dough. Knead 5 to 8 minutes, adding flour as needed to form a firmer dough, and dough is smooth and elastic. Place in a greased bowl and cover 9if not using right away, you can refrigerate the dough at this point. ) Let rise in fridge one hour. Punch down, then pinch off pieces of dough and form into small balls, about the size of golfballs. Cover and let sit 15 minutes while heating up oil. In a deep fryer, or heavy dutch oven, heat four inches of oil. Add the doughnuts to the hot oil (temperature should be about 375 degrees F.) and fry until the undersides are deep brown. Turn over once and finish frying the other side. Lift doughnuts out using a slotted spoon and drain well on paper towels. To fill, make a small opening and spoon in ham or jelly. Sprinkle lightly with sifted icing sugar or granulated sugar. Makes about 24-36 doughnuts.

To test oil temperature, it is a good idea to try frying one doughnut to start with. Once the doughnut seems done, take it out and cut it open to see if the inside is cooked.

*To make fried dough with baking powder:
Make this recipe as it appears but omit the yeast. Instead, use 5 teaspoons of baking powder. After kneading, let dough rest 30 minutes, then roll out rectangles of dough. Let rest 20 minutes, then stretch thin and pop into hot oil to fry. Drain and toss in sugar.

In a food processor, puree the bananas and set aside. Without cleaning the work bowl, blend the sugars, oil, eggs and vanilla for a minute. Add in the dry ingredients and bananas and blend, pouring in the cocoa cola as mixtue is blending together. Blend in the food processor until smooth, about 1 minute.

Spoon into the prepared loaf pans and set the pans on the baking sheet. Bake at 300 degrees F. for one hour 20 minutes, or until cakes test done.
Makes two loaves.
These keep well or freeze

Recipe source: www.davisbakingpowder.com