doughnuts

Nigella Lawson’s New Year doughnuts are Dutch oliebollen, little yeasted dough balls made with a nutmeg-and-lemon-scented batter, fried at 180°C for about 5 minutes until crisp outside and soft within, then dusted with icing sugar. The batter proves for around 1¼ hours. She frames them in Cook, Eat, Repeat (2020) as her way of celebrating …