Date Doughnuts

Ingredients

• One cupful sugar
• one tablespoon melted butter
• two eggs
• one-half teaspoon vanilla
• 1/4 teaspoon of soda
• 1 cupful sour milk
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
• 1/4 teaspoon of cinnamon
• 1/2 teaspoon of salt
• pastry flour, dates.

Method

1. 1

   Cream butter and sugar together, add eggs, well-beaten, vanilla, sour milk with soda added to it, and 2 cupfuls of pastry flour, mixed and sifted with spices, salt and baking powder.

2. 2

   Add enough more flour to make a soft dough.

3. 3

   Roll 1/4 inch thick and cut with round cutter, as for cookies.

4. 4

   Place half a date on one side, then lap over the other side; press edges together; fry in hot, deep fat.

5. 5

   Roll in powdered sugar.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Magnet users cook book (1920) by Petrie Manufacturing Co, page 57. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

DATE DOUGHNUTS. One cupful sugar, one tablespoon melted butter, two eggs, one-half teaspoon vanilla, 44 teaspoon of soda, 1 cupful sour milk, -1 teaspoon baking powder, 14 teaspoon nutmeg, 14 teaspoon of cinnamon, % teaspoon of salt, pastry flour, dates. Stone and half the dates. Cream butter and sugar together, add eggs, well-beaten, vanilla, sour milk with soda added to it, and 2 cupfulls of pastry flour, mixed and sifted with spices, _ salt and baking powder. Add enough more flour to make a soft dough. Roll ¥% inch thick and cut with round cutter, as for cookies. Place half a date on one side, then lap over the other side; press edges together; fry in hot, _ deep fat. Roll in powdered sugar.—Mrs, Jas, Clark, Truro, N 5S, SOUR MILK DOUGHNUTS No. 1. One cup of sugar, 1 cup sour milk, 1 \ teaspoon of soda, 1 teaspoon cream of tartar, 2 eggs, 4 tablespoons of melted lard, nutmeg, salt and flour to stiffen.—Mrs. Geo. Mustard, Miami, Man. SOUR MILK DOUGHNUTS No, 2. One cup sugar, 1 cup of sour milk (scant),-1 tablespoon of butter, 2 eggs, 1 teaspoon of soda, flour to stiffen, pinch of salt, flavoring.—Mrs. Jim Smith, Cardston, Alta. SWEET MILK DOUGHNUTS No. 1. Two eggs, 1 cup of white sugar, 2 cups of sweet milk, 2 tablespoons of butter or lard, 3 teaspoons of baking powder (heaping), flour to make a soft dough. Fry in hot lard.—Mrs. W. H. _ Cressman, Breslau, Ontario. SWEET MILK DOUGHNUTS No, 2. Butter, size of a walnut, 1 scant cup of sugar, 3 eggs, 1 cup of sweet milk, 2 teaspoons of baking powder. Enough flour to make stiff. Roll out and cut with doughnut cutter. Cream - butter and sugar, add eggs and milk (eggs well beaten). Sift baking powder with flour. Fry in fat, piping hot—Mrs. Hickey, Erickson, B. C, FRIED CAKES. One cup of sour cream or milk, 1 cup of sugar, 2 eggs, 1 tablespoon of butter, a little nutmeg and salt, a teaspoon of soda, dissolved. Flour to mix soft.—Mrs. Jos. Picard, Deseronto, Ontario. SOUR MILK FRIED CAKES. One egg, 2 cups of sour milk, 2 tea- spoons soda, 1 cup of sugar, 14% teaspoons lard, enough flour to make a dough.—Mrs. S. Criter, Gallingertown, Ontario, 3 ee NUDELS. One cup of sweet milk, salt, 2 eggs, flour. Add the eggs, galt and flour together, work stiff, and boil 15 minutes and drain, and put in _ frying pan and brown good.—Mrs. J. H. Birkin, Hamilton, Ontario, ae APPLE FRITTERS. Two-thirds cup milk, 1 egg, 1 teaspoon of sugar, a 1% cups flour, 2 teaspoons baking powder, 4 teaspoon of salt.

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