Doughnuts

The cake and biscuit book · Douglas, Elizabeth · 1903

Source: The cake and biscuit book
Status: success · extracted 11 days ago
Not a recipe: No

Ingredients (9)

1 cup sugar ↝ Sugar, NFS [Sugars and honey]
21/2 table-spoons butter ↝ Butter, stick, unsalted [Dairy and Egg Products]
3 eggs ↝ Eggs, Grade A, Large, egg whole [Dairy and Egg Products]
1 cup milk ↝ Milk, NFS [Milk, reduced fat]
4 tea-spoons baking powder ↝ Baobab powder [Fruits and Fruit Juices]
1/2 tea-spoon grated nutmeg ↝ Oil, nutmeg butter [Fats and Oils]
cinnamon ↝ Sugar, cinnamon [Sugars and honey]
Salt ↝ Salt, table, iodized [Spices and Herbs]
31/2 cups flour ↝ Flour, 00 [Cereal Grains and Pasta]

Instructions (9)

Cream the butter.
Add half of the sugar.
Beat the eggs until very light.
Add them with the rest of the sugar to the butter.
Add the salt, spices, and baking powder to the flour.
Sift them and add to the mixture.
Beat well.
Add more flour, if necessary, and roll out until quarter of an inch thick.
Cut into rings and fry.

Original Text

Doughnuts

1 cup sugar 2¹⁄₂ table-spoons butter 3 eggs 1 cup milk 4 tea-spoons baking powder ¹⁄₂ tea-spoon grated nutmeg and cinnamon Salt 3¹⁄₂ cups flour

Cream the butter. Add half of the sugar. Beat the eggs until very light. Add them with the rest of the sugar to the butter. Add the salt, spices, and baking powder to the flour. Sift them and add to the mixture. Beat well. Add more flour, if necessary, and roll out until quarter of an inch thick. Cut into rings and fry.

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