Doughnuts

Ingredients

• 2 tablespoonfuls butter
• 1 teaspoonful salt
• 1 cupful sugar
• i/^ teaspoonful cinnamon
• 1 egg
• 4 teaspoonfuls baking powder
• flour to make a soft dough
• 1 cupful milk

Method

1. 1

   Cream the butter, add the sugar and beat until light.

2. 2

   Stir in the well beaten egg and the sweet milk.

3. 3

   Sift the baking powder, salt, and cinnamon with 1.5 cupfuls of flour and stir this mixture in, adding sufficient flour to make a soft dough.

4. 4

   Roll 0.5 inch thick and cut.

5. 5

   Fry, drain, and when partly cool, sprinkle with powdered sugar.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The farm cook & rule book (1923) by Nell Beaubien Nichols, page 22. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Doughnuts 4 medium sized potatoes flour 2 tablespoonfuls butter 2 cupfuls sugar 4 eggs 1 teaspoonful salt 4 teaspoonfuls baking powder Boil and mash the potatoes. Add butter, beaten eggs, sugar and salt. Mix the baking powder with 2 cupfuls of flour and add to the mixture. Add enough more flour to make a dough stiff enough to roll I/2 inch thick. Cut and fry. Drain and roll in powdered sugar. Crullers 6 eggs 6 tablespoonfuls sugar 6 tablespoonfuls melted shortening flour to make a stiff dough Beat eggs until very light. Add sugar, shortening, and flour. Beat thoroughly and roll very thin. Cut in strips 3 inches long and 2 inches wide. Make three one-inch parallel gashes cross- wise at equal intervals. Take up by running the handle of a spoon in and out of the gashes. Fry in deep fat and sprinkle with powdered sugar. 48 THE FARM COOK AND RULE BOOK Fancy Doughnuts 1 cupful granulated sugar 4 teaspoonfuls baking powder 2 squares chocolate 3 cupfuls flour 1 egg % cupful nut meats 1 teaspoonful salt 1 teaspoonful vanilla 1 cupful milk grated rind of i/^ orange Beat the egg and sugar together with a spoon and add the unsweetened chocolate which has been melted over hot water. Sift the dry ingredients together, saving out a little flour to mix with the chopped nut meats. Add the flour mixture alternately with the milk and then stir in the nuts and grated orange and lemon rind. Roll, cut and fry in hot fat. Doughnuts 2 tablespoonfuls butter 1 teaspoonful salt 1 cupful sugar i/^ teaspoonful cinnamon 1 egg 4 teaspoonfuls baking powder flour to make a soft dough

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