Whipple family doughnuts

25 servings

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
1 cup (Heaping) Sugar
4 teaspoons Baking Powder
½ teaspoon Salt
pinch Nutmeg
3½ cup Flour
1 Egg
1 cup Milk
1 tablespoon Heavy Cream -- OR
2 teaspoons Hot Lard Or Shortening
2½ cup (To 3) Lard Or Shortening
For frying

Directions

Mix dry ingredients and add t the egg, milk, and cream or lard, using enough flour so the mixture will not soak. Knead well. The consistency should be like bread dough.

Roll out about ⅓" thick, cut with a doughnut cutter, and let sit for 5 mins.

Heat the frying lard of shortening to near smoking. The doughnuts should be fried quickly on each side so they will not soak up the fat. Drain on brown paper.

Note: If you like, roll the doughnuts in confectioners' sugar. You can freeze the doughnuts and then heat them at 400 F for a few mins until thawed -- almost as good as newly cooked.

Makes 25 doughnuts and holes.

Recipe By : An American Folklife Cookbook - ISBN 0-8052-3914-6 From: Dan Klepach Date: 05-16-95 (159) Fido: Cooking

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