Doughnuts (Sour Milk)

Ingredients

• Two cupfuls of sugar
• Two cupfuls of sour milk
• Eight table-spoonfuls of melted butter
• Four eggs
• One tea-spoonful of salt
• Two tea-spoonfuls of soda
• Two tea-spoonfuls of cream of tartar
• Flour to thicken

Method

1. 1

   Add the salt and sugar to the milk, and then the soda, dissolved in a little cold water.

2. 2

   Sift a little flour, stir into it the cream of tartar, and add this to the milk; then stir in the melted butter, and the eggs, well beaten.

3. 3

   Add only enough flour to admit of rolling out the dough.

4. 4

   Turn the dough on a floured bread-board, and let it stand fifteen minutes before cutting out.

5. 5

   Roll it half an inch thick, cut out with a doughnut cutter, and drop the cakes into very hot fat.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Pattern cook-book (1890) by Butterick Publishing Company, page 166. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

DOUGHNUTS. (sOUR MILK.) Two cupfuls of sugar. Two cupfuls of sour milk. Eight table-spoonfuls of melted butter. 3 8o THE PA TTERN CO OK-B O OK. Four eggs. One tea-spoonful of salt. Two tea-spoonfuls of soda. Two tea-spoonfuls of cream of tartar. Flour to thicken

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