Complex sentence: Since Dutch farm families were quite large, when the "Haus Frau" (housewife) began to fry the raised fastnachts in her warm kitchen the tantalizing smell of these raised donut-like cakes lingered throughout the farmhouse.
Split into simpler sentences: Since Dutch farm families were quite large, when the "Haus Frau" (housewife) began to fry the raised fastnachts in her warm kitchen. The tantalizing smell of these raised donut-like cakes lingered throughout the farmhouse.