Crullers, 4.—1 cup sugar, 3 tablespoons butter, 1 cup cream, 3 cups flour mixed with 2 teaspoons Royal Baking Powder, and ½ teaspoon salt, adding enough flour to make soft dough. Roll out, cut in 2-inch squares, and slash with jagging-iron. Fry, drain, and roll in sugar.
Dutch Crullers.—2 eggs, 1 teaspoon grated nutmeg, 1 cup sugar, 1 cup cream, ¼ teaspoon salt, 1 teaspoon Royal Baking Powder, sufficient flour to mix to a soft dough. Roll out, cut in squares, cut several times in center with jagging-iron; fry brown in kettle of deep smoking-hot fat.
Fried Cakes.—2½ cups flour, 2 teaspoons Royal Baking Powder, ½ cup milk, ½ teaspoon salt, 2 eggs, 1 scant tablespoon melted butter, 5 tablespoons sugar. Sift dry materials together. Add beaten eggs, milk, and melted butter. Drop by small spoonfuls in deep smoking-hot fat, fry brown, drain on unglazed paper.
Rye Drop Cakes.—1 heaping cup rye meal, 1 heaping cup flour, 1 teaspoon salt, 3 tablespoons molasses, 1 cup milk, 2 eggs, 2½ teaspoons Royal Baking Powder. Sift dry materials together. Add milk, molasses, and beaten eggs. Drop by spoonfuls in deep smoking-hot fat. When brown drain on paper.
Wonders.—3 eggs, 3 tablespoons melted shortening, 3 tablespoons sugar, 1 teaspoon Royal Baking Powder mixed with 1 cup flour. Add more flour to make stiff dough, roll very thin. Cut in 3-inch squares; in each cut several slits; run finger through and separate, then dent them. Fry and roll in sugar.
Dumplings
Apple Dumplings, Royal.—1 quart flour, thoroughly mix with it 3 teaspoons Royal Baking Powder and a small teaspoon salt; rub in a piece of butter or lard the size of an egg, and then add 1 medium potato, grated in the flour; after the butter is well mixed, stir in milk and knead to the consistency of soft biscuit-dough; break off pieces of dough large enough to close over 4 quarters of an apple (or other fruit as desired) without rolling, and lay in an earthen dish and steam until the fruit is tender. Serve with brandy sauce.
Apple Dumplings, 2.—Paste, 2; 6 apples, peeled, cored, and sliced, 1 cup sugar. Line 6 cups, well greased, with the paste rolled out thin, wet edges, fill with apples, some of the sugar, cover with more paste; put in shallow stewpan, large enough to contain them, with boiling water to reach half-way up the cups; steam thus 45 minutes; turn out on dish, sift sugar over them; serve with spice sauce.
Apple Dumplings, 3.—Paste, 3; 8 apples, peeled and cored, 1 cup sugar. Roll out the paste thin, cut into 8 squares of 4 inches, lay on each an apple with sugar in aperture made by removing core, wet four corners of paste, and bring them to top of apple and fasten; sift sugar over them; lay on baking-sheet and bake in hot oven 25 minutes; serve with hard sauce.