Doughnuts

Ingredients

• % cup butter
• 1 cup sugar
• ly^ pints flour
• 1 egg
• iy2 cups milk
• iy2 teaspoons baking powder
• Little nutmeg

Method

1. 1

   Rub butter, sugar, and egg together, sift flour and baking powder together, add to butter, milk, etc.; mix into soft dough, roll to 0.5 inch in thickness; cut with a biscuit cutter and fry to a light brown in plenty of hot lard.

2. 2

   When done, dredge with powdered sugar.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Edwardsville cook book (1906), page 47. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

DOUGHNUTS. Mrs. James Timnell. % cup sugar. 2 eggs. % cup milk. teaspoon salt, teaspoon cinnamon or nut- 1 teaspoon butter, meg. 1 teaspoon baking powder. Melt butter, add sugar, add beaten yolks, then milk, flour and baking powder ; the well beaten whites last. Flour enough to roll out, not more flour than can help. DOUGHNUTS. Mrs. R. C. 1 cup sugar. 1 cup clabber milk. 1 level teaspoon soda. 1 level teaspoon salt. y^ teaspoon nutmeg. Barnett. 1 heaping teaspoon baking powder. Butter, size of hickory nut. Flour to make dough like bis- cuit. DOUGHNUTS. Mrs. J. G. Delicate. % cup butter. 1 cup sugar. ly^ pints flour. 1 egg. iy2 cups milk. iy2 teaspoons baking powder. Little nutmeg

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