Fastnachts

Ingredients

• 4 cups flour
• 1/3 cup sugar
• %. cup sweet milk
• 3 tablespoons lard
• 3 eggs
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 teaspoon salt
• Nutmeg

Method

1. 1

   Sift flour, baking powder, salt, and sugar together.

2. 2

   Break in eggs, mix in lard and milk.

3. 3

   Roll thicker than pie crust, cut into squares, and fry in deep fat until brown.

4. 4

   Drain and sprinkle with sugar.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Gertrude Bobbitt Circle cook book (1948) by Central Methodist Church (Spencer, N.C.). Gertrude Bobbitt Circle, page 28. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

FASTNACHTS 4 cups flour 1/3 cup sugar %. cup sweet milk 3 tablespoons lard 3 eggs 2 teaspoons baking powder 1 teaspoon «alt Nutmeg Sift flour, baking powder, salt and sugar together. Then break in eggs, mix in lard and milk. Roll a little thicker than pie crust. Make squares as large as you like, cut strips, five or six, not all the Avay through square. Fry in deep fat until brown. Drain and sprin- kle with sugar. Miss Ida Shuping 49 CINNAMON STICKS Use a two-day-old unsliced bread, cut off crust and cut bread into oblonu' pieces about an inch thick and an inch Jong. Melt V2 lb. butter and dip bread lightly in butter. Use V2 lb. brown sugar and some cinnamon mixed in another pan. Dip buttered bread in sugar and cinnamon. Lay on cookie sheet and toast in hot oven about five minutes. Watch it carefully until light brown. Then dip lightly in powdered sugar and serve with a salad, tea or coffee. Mn. Viola Kestler BANANA CUP CAKES V2 cup shortening 2 cups flour 1 cup sugar 1 teaspoon soda 2 eggs y2 cup nuts 3 ripe bananas (crushed) Mix in the order given and bake in cup cake shells or in greased loaf pan at 350 degrees for 40 minutes. Mrs. O. C. Godfrey RICH CINNAMON BUNS % cup Karo syrup % cup butter \'i cup brown sugar 3 cups sifted flour 4 teaspoons baking powder 1 teaspoon salt

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