¹⁄₂ lb. butter
³⁄₄ lb. powdered sugar
6 eggs
Nutmeg
Flour
Beat the butter to a cream with the sugar. Flavour with nutmeg. Add the well beaten eggs and sufficient flour to make the mixture stiff enough to roll out. Cut in their proper shapes and fry in a large pan of boiling lard until a rich yellow. Keep for a day before eating.
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.
Doughnuts made with Yeast
¹⁄₂ lb. butter
³⁄₄ lb. sugar
1 pint sweet milk
2 eggs
¹⁄₂ cup yeast
1 dessert-spoon spices (mace or nutmeg and cinnamon)
Flour
Salt
Cream the butter. Add the sugar. Beat well. Add the milk, yeast, and about a pint and a half of sifted flour. Set to rise over night. Add the well beaten eggs, spices, and sufficient flour to make a stiff dough in the morning. Roll out. Cut into rounds and fry. Sift sugar over them while hot.
Puff-ball Doughnuts
3 eggs
1 cup powdered sugar
1 pint sweet milk
Flour
2 heaping tea-spoons baking powder