Deep Fried Cookie Recipe

Hi All,

I had a near disaster yesterday: tried to make a cookie my Hungarian grandmother made a long time ago. She pronounced it DEE DEE GROMPHIN  During whatever war was raging and who won, she recounted going daily by horse and wagon (late 1800's) across a border to be schooled in German, by law. That's why I think she could have been Austrian or Hungarian: Spoke German all her life, but Hungarian when she didn't want the children (my mother, et al) to know what was being said. Lots of eggs or egg yolks: can't remember. I GOOGLED and found this (dreadful) recipe: