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Cider Doughnuts!
Local farm stores and orchards that sell cider doughnuts keep their doughnut machines operating all day long on the weekends — sometimes as many as 14 hours at a time — producing thousands of doughnuts to keep up with demand. Eagle Mills Cider Mill and Fun Park in Broadalbin has three machines going at once, as does Lakeside Farms in Ballston Lake. Riverview Orchards’ machine plunges out about a dozen doughnuts per minute, totaling roughly 8,400 on a weekend day. Posted on October 27, 2010.
The New York Times reported in 1951 that the Doughnut Corp. of America introduced a “new type of product, the Sweet Cider Doughnut.” Since then, people have been enjoying them in ever increasing numbers.
Craig Boyko of the Eagle Mills Cider Mill in Broadalbin loads dough into a dispenser as he makes batches of cider doughnuts.
The dough drops down into the hot fat and passes through a fryer, being flipped in the middle of the trip.
Hot cider doughnuts, fresh from the fryer.
Boyko removes the newly-minted doughnuts from the catch bin.
Boyko holds a fresh batch of cider doughnuts, ready for a dusting of cinnamon-sugar.
