Pickaninny Doughnuts

Ingredients

• 2 cups brown sugar
• 2 eggs beaten light
• 4 tablespoons melted butter
• 1 cup sweet milk
• 4 cups flour
• 3 teaspoons baking powder
• % teaspoon cinnamon
• Vz teaspoon salt

Method

1. 1

   Mix in the order given adding the dry ingredients sifted together and a sufficient amount of flour to make a dough just soft enough to handle.

2. 2

   Do not mix any more than necessary as this will make your doughnuts tough.

3. 3

   Cover the board with flour and heat the fat for frying.

4. 4

   Roll out a little dough at a time and cut into rings with an open doughnut cutter, cutting all the doughnuts preparatory to frying.

5. 5

   When the fat is hot enough for the dough to rise to the top quickly, start to fry the doughnuts.

6. 6

   From 3 to 4 minutes are required to fry doughnuts.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Southern cook book of fine old recipes (1935) by Lillie S. Lustig, page 46. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Pickaninny Doughnuts 2 cups brown sugar 2 eggs beaten light 4 tablespoons melted butter 1 cup sweet milk 4 cups flour 3 teaspoons baking powder % teaspoon cinnamon Vz teaspoon salt

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