Delicious World Recipes

1930 Yeast Doughnuts

1930 Yeast Doughnuts

Ingredients

  • 14 c Crisco
  • 1 cake yeast
  • 1 c milk
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1 egg
  • 14 c sugar
  • 3 12 c sifted flour

Directions

  1. Heat milk slightly and dissolve yeast
  2. Add 1 14 cups flour and beat until smooth
  3. Cover and let rise in warm place until it doubles about 2 hours
  4. Cream Crisco salt and sugar together Add egg and blend
  5. Stir this mixture into yeast sponge
  6. Add remaining flour and mix thoroughly
  7. Rub top with Crisco and let rise again until almost double
  8. Roll 14-inch thick and cut with floured doughnut cutter
  9. Allow to rise about 45 minutes
  10. Then fry in deep kettle with Crisco heated until an inch cube of bread browns about 60 seconds
  11. Fry doughnuts 2 to 3 minutes until brown
  12. Drain and glaze with confectioners sugar and hot water combined until it becomes a thin frosting
  13. When you make these wonderful doughnuts you will have a smile on your lips and a smile in your stomach