| The "Official" Doughnut Recipe back to 'Doughnut Girls'
The "official" recipe is as follows:
ingredients:
7 ½ cups sugar
¾ cup lard
9 eggs
3 large cans evaporated milk
3 large cans water
18 cups of flour
18 teaspoons baking powder
7 ½ teaspoons salt
9 teaspoons of nutmeg
Method:
Cream sugar and lard together, beat eggs, add evaporated milk and water. Add liquid to creamed mixture. Mix flour, baking powder, salt and nutmeg in large sieve and sift into other mixture. Add enough flour to make a stiff dough. Roll and cut. Five pounds of lard are required to fry the doughnuts.
Makes about 250 doughnuts
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