Fried Cakes

HOMEMADE FRIED CAKES

Ingredients: One and a half cups of sugar, one cup of sour milk, two eggs, two scant tablespoons of melted butter, half a nutmeg grated, a large teaspoon of cinnamon, a teaspoon of salt and one teaspoon of soda;

Directions: Make a little stiffer than biscuit dough, roll out a quarter of an inch thick, and cut with a fried-cake cutter, with a hole in the centre. Fry in hot fat.

NOTE: These can be made with sweet milk and baking powder, using two heaping teaspoonfuls of the baking powder in place of soda.




Beat two eggs well, add to them one ounce of sifted sugar, two ounces of warmed butter, two tablespoons of yeast, a cup of luke-warm milk and a little salt. Whip all well together, then stir in by degrees one pound of flour, and, if requisite, more milk, making thin dough. Beat it until it falls from the spoon, then set it to rise. When it has risen make butter, oil or lard hot in a frying pan, cut from the light dough little pieces the size of a walnut, and, without molding or kneading, fry them pale brown.

NOTE: As they are done lay them on a napkin to absorb any of the fat.