Raised Doughnuts

Ingredients

• One pint of milk
• Two cupfuls of sugar
• One cupful of yeast, or one cake
• One-half cupful of lard
• One-half cupful of butter
• Three eggs
• One tea-spoonful of salt
• One tea-spoonful of nutmeg
• Flour

Method

1. 1

   Soak the compressed yeast (if used) in half a cupful of water, then add the milk, and flour enough to make a thick batter, and set it in a warm place to rise.

2. 2

   When light, add the other ingredients, and knead the same as bread, adding flour to make a dough.

3. 3

   Set the dough to rise, and when light roll it out half an inch thick, cut out with a doughnut-cutter, and leave the doughnuts in a warm place to rise.

4. 4

   Fry them in hot fat when perfectly light.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Pattern cook-book (1890) by Butterick Publishing Company, page 166. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

RAISED DOUGHNUTS. The following is a very reliable recipe : One pint of milk. Two cupfuls of sugar. One cupful of yeast, or one cake. One-half cupful of lard. One-half cupful of butter. Three eggs. One tea-spoonful of salt. One tea-spoonful of nutmeg. Flour

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