American Fritters or Doughnuts

Ingredients

• 2 eggs
• 4 table-sps. melted butter
• 4 to 6 oz. castor sugar
• £ tea-sp. salt
• |pt. milk
• | tea-sp. ground cinna- mon
• 1 tea-sp. baking powder
• Flour to make a soft dough

Method

1. 1

   Sieve the sugar into a basin, add the eggs, and beat these two well together with a wooden spoon until light and creamy.

2. 2

   Then add the butter melted, the cinnamon, salt, baking powder, and milk.

3. 3

   Sieve in by degrees enough flour to make a soft light dough, and knead very gently for a few minutes.

4. 4

   Flour the baking-board and rolling-pin and roll the dough out one inch thick.

5. 5

   Cut it into small circles or rings or strips, and twist them.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Cookery for every household (1914) by Florence B. Jack, page 673. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

American Fritters or Doughnuts 2 eggs. 4 table-sps. melted butter. 4 to 6 oz. castor sugar. £ tea-sp. salt. |pt. milk. | tea-sp. ground cinna- mon. 1 tea-sp. baking powder. Flour to make a soft dough

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