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Plain Doughnuts

From Cooking for profit, 1886

Serves 2

Cost of material: dough 5, sugar and lard 5, lard to fry 8; 18 cents for about 24.

Presented as published in 1886. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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Ingredients

Method

As published

This recipe was extracted from Cooking for profit (1886) by Jessup Whitehead, page 87. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Plain Doughnuts. 4 cups light bread dough — 2 lbs. ■J cup sugar. 2 ounces melted lard. Lard to fry

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