Crullers or Fried Cakes

Name: Crullers or Fried Cakes
Yield: 2 servings
Ingredients: One and a half cupfuls of sugar; one cupful of sour milk; two eggs; two scant tablespoonfuls of melted butter; half a nutmeg grated; a large teaspoonful of cinnamon; a teaspoonful of salt; one of soda

From Original White House Cookbook, 1887

Serves 2

These can be made with sweet milk and baking powder, using two heaping teaspoonfuls of baking powder in place of soda.

Presented as published in 1887. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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This recipe was extracted from Original White House Cookbook (1887) by Hugo Ziemann, F. L. Gillette, Hugo Zimmerman, mrs gillette, page 202. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

CRULLERS OR FRIED CAKES. One and a half cupfuls of sugar, one cupful of sour milk, two eggs, two scant tablespoonfuls of melted butter, half a nutmeg grated, a large teaspoonful of cinnamon, a teaspoonful of salt and one of soda

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