Old-Fashioned Doughnuts

Ingredients

• three eggs
• one cupful of granulated sugar
• one level teaspoonful of salt
• one pint of sweet milk
• one-third of a nutmeg grated
• two cupfuls of flour
• one level teaspoonful of cream of tartar
• one level teaspoonful of saleratus

Method

1. 1

   Beat the eggs for five minutes, then stir in sugar, salt, milk, and grated nutmeg.

2. 2

   Sift flour, cream of tartar, and saleratus together three times.

3. 3

   Quickly stir flour into the mixture until a dough is formed.

4. 4

   Roll out half an inch thick, cut into rounds, and fry in hot fat until light brown.

5. 5

   Drain and roll in powdered sugar.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Miss Corson's practical American cookery and household management (1885) by Juliet Corson, page 268. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

OLD-FASHIONED DOUGHNUTS. Beat three eggs in a large bowl for five minutes ; stir into them one cupful of granulated sugar, one level teaspoonful of salt, one pint of sweet milk, and one-third of a nutmeg grated; sift together three times two cupfuls of flour and one level teaspoonful each of cream of tar

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