Rich Doughnuts Recipe

• 1 cup sugar
• 5 tablespoons vegetable shortening
• 3 eggs
• 4 teaspoons baking powder
• 1½ teaspoons salt
• 1 cup milk
• 1 teaspoon grated nutmeg
• Sifted flour, 4 1/2 cups measured before sifting

1. Cream vegetable shortening and gradually add sugar and well-beaten eggs.
2. Sift dry ingredients together and mix in alternately to egg mixture.
3. Roll out as soft as can be handled.
4. Cut with donut cutter and drop into a pot half-filled with boiling vegetable shortening. Shortening is ready when a piece of bread dropped in becomes golden brown in sixty seconds.
5. After donuts are golden brown, lay on parchment paper until dry.
6. Sufficient for sixty doughnuts.

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