Rich Doughnuts Recipe

Ingredients for Rich Doughnuts

• 1 cup sugar
• 5 tablespoons vegetable shortening
• 3 eggs
• 4 teaspoons baking powder
• 1½ teaspoons salt
• 1 cup milk
• 1 teaspoon grated nutmeg
• Flour to make soft dough

Instructions

1. From 4 1/2 to 5 cups flour sifted before measuring.
2. Cream vegetable shortening, add sugar gradually, and eggs well beaten.
3. Sift dry ingredients and add alternately to egg mixture.
4. Roll out as soft as can be handled.
5. Cut with cutter and fry in hot vegetable shortening.
6. Heat vegetable shortening until crumb of bread becomes golden brown in sixty seconds.
7. Sufficient for sixty doughnuts.