Old Fashioned Doughnuts

Ingredients

• 1 cup sugar
• y2 grated nutmeg
• 2 teaspoons butter
• A pinch of salt
• 2 eggs beaten without separating
• 3 cups of flour
• 3 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 cup milk

Method

1. 1

   Cream butter and sugar, add nutmeg, salt, eggs, and milk.

2. 2

   Mix in flour with baking powder sifted twice.

3. 3

   Roll out, cut into shapes, and fry in deep snowdrift until cooked through.

4. 4

   Drain and roll in powdered sugar if desired.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Efficiency in home-making and first-aid to good cooking (1915) by Robertson, Georgia, page 78. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

2 teaspoons baking powder. Warm the mixing bowl slightly, put in the butter and cream it, add the sugar slowly, then the egg without beat- ing ; beat all vigorously together ; sift the flour and baking First Aid to Good Cooking 157 powder together; add this and the milk or water alter- nately to the first mixture. Divide the dough and flavor half with vanilla (about 2 teaspoons) or lemon, and the other half with an ounce of melted chocolate or a couple tablespoons of cocoa sifted with a little flour. Add enough more flour to make a soft dough, about two-thirds of a cup or more according to the flour. Flour the bread board, roll out a portion of the dough about an eighth of an inch thick and cut out with a cooky cutter or a tum- bler. Bake in a hot oven, watching to avoid burning them. (See note on preceding page.) OLD FASHIONED DOUGHNUTS. 1 cup sugar. y2 grated nutmeg. 2 teaspoons butter. A pinch of salt. 2 eggs beaten without 3 cups of flour. separating. 3 teaspoons baking 1 cup milk

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