Honey Doughnuts Recipe

Ingredients for Honey Doughnuts

• 3 eggs
• ½ cup sugar
• 3 tablespoons vegetable shortening
• 1½ cups honey
• 1 cup sour milk
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon cream of tartar
• 1 teaspoon lemon extract
• 5¾ cups flour
• 1 teaspoon salt

Instructions

1. Cream vegetable shortening, honey and sugar well together, then add eggs well beaten, mix well, add milk, lemon extract, flour, salt, soda, and cream of tartar.
2. Mix and turn out on baking board, roll out and cut with doughnut cutter.
3. Fry in plenty of hot vegetable shortening.
4. If a piece of bread browns in hot vegetable shortening in sixty seconds, temperature is right for doughnuts and fritters.
5. Sufficient for sixty-five doughnuts.