Potato Doughnuts

Ingredients

• 3 cups of mashed potatoes
• 3 eggs
• 3 cups of sugar
• 1 1/2 cups of milk
• 6 teaspoons of baking powder
• 1 nutmeg
• Butter size of small egg
• Pinch of salt

Method

1. 1

   While the potatoes are warm add sugar, butter and milk.

2. 2

   Mix very stiff and roll quite thin, as they swell a great deal.

3. 3

   This makes a large quantity.

4. 4

   Fry in deep fat.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Historic Paxton, her days and her ways, 1722-1913 (1913) by Helen Bruce Wallace, page 55. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Potato Doughnuts (Mrs. S. F. Barber.) 3 cups of mashed potatoes. 3 eggs. 3 cups of sugar. 147 FOR WRITTEN RECIPES 1% cups of milk. 6 teaspoons of baking powder. 1 nutmeg. Butter size of small egg. Pinch of salt

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