Nice Fried Cakes

Ingredients

• one pint of buttermilk
• one egg
• one cupful of white sugar
• one table-spoonful of butter
• a little ginger
• one tea-spoonful of soda

Method

1. 1

   Knead dough as soft as possible, fry in boiling lard.

2. 2

   Use enough flour to make a soft dough.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 2 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The new Kentucky home cook book (1884) by Maysville (Ky.). Methodist Episcopal Church, South., page 148. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

one tea-spoonful of soda. Roll, cut out, and fry in boiling lard. Miss Sallie Keckeey. DOUGHNUTS. Take three eggs, three cupfuls of sugar, one-half pint of buttermilk, one tea-spoonful of soda, one-half pint of sweet milk, butter the size of an egg, spice to taste. Melt the but- ter in the warm sweet milk, work the eggs, sugar, and but- termilk together, then add enough flour to make the dough about as stiff as soda biscuit. Fry in boiling lard. While the cakes are hot, sift powdered sugar over them. Mrs. H. Bierbower. DOUGHNUTS. Take a cake of dry yeast or half a cake of quick yeast, dissolve it in a little milk-warm water. For this quantity of yeast, use one and one-half pounds of flour and enough warm milk to make a sponge. Set it to rise. When light, use sufficient flour to make a soft dough, beat two eggs very light, one table-spoonful of butter, one table-spoonful of lard, one-half pound of white sugar, spice to taste. Cut or roll into cakes to suit the fancy. Fry in boiling lard. When done, sift sugar over them. Grandmother Cox. DOUGHNUTS. Rub one cupful of butter and two cupfuls of white sugar to a cream, add two eggs well beaten, two cupfuls of sweet milk, and one cupful of yeast. Mix in flour enough to make a dough as soft as you can handle. Let it rise overnight in a warm place; roll the dough out about an inch thick, cut into small cakes, put a raisin in the center of each one and The New Kentucky Home Cook Book. 291 press it in the dough. Have a shallow kettle with about three pounds of lard, put it over the fire where it will melt, then set it forward, and when boiling hot lay in the cakes. In about ten minutes after they are put iu, try one to see if it is done through. Drain them in a sieve, and then roll them in powdered sugar. If the lard gets too hot, move back to a cooler spot on the range. Fry them to a light brown. DOUGHNUTS. Take one pint of yeast sponge, one pound of butter, one quart of warm milk, five eggs beaten very light, two grated nutmegs, one and three-quarters pound of sugar, one tea- spoonful of soda. Take the yeast, milk, half the shorten- ing, half the sugar, and half the flour. Mix well together. When light, add the remainder of the sugar, flour, eggs, and nutmeg. When ready to fry, knead in the soda dis- solved in a little hot water, cut the cakes out and let them stand before frying. When done, sift powdered sugar over them. NICE FRIED CAKES. Take one pint of buttermilk, one egg, one cupful of white sugar, one table-spoonful of butter, a little ginger

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