German Doughnuts

Ingredients:

2 cups milk
4 eggs
1 tablespoon melted butter
Flavoring of your choice (lemon rind, rum extract, nutmeg, vanilla etc.)
1/3 teaspoon salt
4 cups flour


Preparation:

• First boil the milk and pour it, while hot, over a 2 cups of flour; beat it very smooth and when it is cool have ready the yolks of the eggs well beaten; add them to the milk and flour, beaten well into it, then add the well-beaten whites; then, lastly, add the salt and as much more flour as will make the whole into a soft dough.
• Flour your board, turn your dough upon it, roll it in pieces as thick as your finger and turn them in the form of a ring.
  
• Cook in plenty of boiling fat. 

NOTE: German Doughnuts are very nice breakfast cake and taste very good with coffee.