The original doughnut wasn’t at sweet as we have it today, and it wasn’t glazed.
** 1918 Doughnut Recipe
Ingredients:
5 cups flour
2 cups sugar
5 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt (a.k.a 1 “saltspoon”)
2 eggs
1 3/4 cups milk
1 tub lard
Directions:
Combine all ingredients (except for lard) to make dough.
Thoroughly knead dough, roll smooth, and cut into rings that are less than 1/4-inch thick.
Drop the rings into the hot lard, making sure the fat is hot enough to brown the doughnuts gradually. Turn the doughnuts slowly several times.
When browned, remove doughnuts and allow excess fat to drop off.
Dust with powdered sugar. Let cool and enjoy.
Grin … if you don’t have a ‘tub of lard’ feel free to use shorting or oil to fry your doughnuts.
*When finding items to cut out doughnut circles, be creative. 1918 Salvation Army Doughnut Girls used whatever they could find, from baking powder cans to coffee percolator tubes.
I wish I’d known it was National Doughnut day! That recipe sounds pretty good, actually. 🙂
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One year we did hog-butchering with some neighbors. They gave us a tub of lard. More than we knew what to do with… but the raccoons had really good coats that winter. -Oscar
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Will do, thank you
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Would you mind if I used your blog in a local magazine here in Scotland?
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