QUICK DOUGHNUTS
Reading edition
3 T shortening
⅔ C sugar
2 eggs, well beaten
3½ C sifted flour
4 t baking pdr.
1 t salt
¼ t cinnamon (op)
⅛ t cloves (op)
⅛ t nutmeg
⅔ C milk
Cream shortening and sugar, blend in eggs. Sift dry ingredients together and add alternately with milk to make dough the consistency of biscuit dough (amount of flour may vary) Roll out ½ inch on a floured board and cut with a doughnut cutter. Fry a few at a time in deep hot fat (360°-375°) turning as soon as the doughnuts rise to the top of the fat. When cool dust with confectioner's sugar.
