"I wanted to eat something – anything good from my childhood. Ceded forever to the past the bagel. Or even harmful a donut with powdered sugar. In Leningrad, he was called chunk. On Bolshoi Prospekt of the Petrograd side was pyshechnaya, and, returning from school, we stayed and watched through the window as the donuts float on the line, then smachivaetsya a metal blade into a VAT of boiling oil and come out the other side has a ruddy, plump, these, to whom it's impossible to resist. And powdered sugar they sprinkle the seller is already in the bag. It pours, and you mentally tell him: more, more rash... " Faced with these lines from Tatyana Tolstoy, really wanted those donuts from Leningrad pyshechnaya, the recipe was found in the presentation Anna Kalmykova. And as she says, the recipe as close as possible, the taste is the same! And, therefore, it is necessary to try!