Potato Doughnuts (Three dozen doughnuts)
1 C-mashed potatoes, hot
1½ C-sugar
2 T-melted butter
3 t-baking powder
½ t-salt
½ C-sweet milk
2 eggs
3 C-flour
1/8 t-grated nutmeg
½ t-powdered cinnamon
Beat the eggs, add the sugar. Mash the potatoes and add the butter and the milk. Add this mixture to the eggs and sugar. Add the flour, baking powder, salt, nutmeg and cinnamon sifted together. Roll one-fourth of an inch thick, cut with a doughnut cutter, and fry in hot deep fat.
CHAPTER XXXV
A PIECE OF NEWS
AS Bettina was putting the finishing touches on her porch table, set for dinner, and humming a little song as she tried the effect of some ragged robins in a mist of candy-tuft, all in a brass bowl, she heard a murmur of voices at her front door.
"I'll tell just Betty; no one else must know—yet. But what if I haven't the courage to tell even her?"
"Perhaps she'll suspect anyhow!"