Raised Doughnuts

Ingredients

• 1 cupful milk
• 1 cupful sugar
• 1% yeast cake
• 1% cupful Crisco
• ¥% cupful lukewarm water
• 2 eggs
• 1% teaspoonfuls salt
• bs 1 teaspoonful grated nutmeg
• ‘lour

Method

1. 1

   Dissolve yeast cake in lukewarm water.

2. 2

   Scald milk and cool, then add yeast, half teaspoonful of the salt and flour to make a drop batter.

3. 3

   Set in a cosy place to rise.

4. 4

   Cream Crisco with sugar, add eggs well beaten, remainder of salt and nutmeg, add to yeast mixture with enough flour to make stiff dough; let rise again.

5. 5

   When risen, make into small balls and place in a Criscoed pan to rise.

6. 6

   When light drop into plenty of hot Crisco and cook from four to five minutes until doughnuts are done.

7. 7

   Drain on soft paper and dredge with powdered sugar.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 18 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from A calendar of dinners, with 615 recipes (1913) by Marion Harris Neil, page 57. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Raised Doughnuts 1 cupful milk 1 cupful sugar \% yeast cake 1% cupful Crisco \% cupful lukewarm water 2 eggs 1% teaspoonfuls salt bs 1 teaspoonful grated nutmeg “‘lour

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