The royal baker and pastry cook : $b A manual of practical cookery

added and the dough quickly rolled out, cut, and at once cooked. The fat should be in a deep pot (to obviate any danger of boiling over), and should be of sufficient depth to cover the dough when first dropped in. It should be smoking hot, or the dough will absorb grease and be soggy. Not more than half a dozen should be dropped in at one time, or the fat will be unduly cooled and some of the cakes submerged during the entire cooking; in which case the cakes when cooked will be greasy and not light. One or two pieces of dough should be cooked first as testers. When done the cakes should be drained on unglazed paper, then rolled in powdered sugar. =Doughnuts.=—Beat well together 2 eggs and 2 cups granulated sugar. Add 1 pint milk and 1 quart flour in which are mixed and sifted 3 teaspoons Royal Baking Powder, 1 teaspoon salt, and 1 grated nutmeg. Beat well, then add more flour to make a soft dough. Roll out ½ inch thick, cut in rings or small balls, and fry brown in a deep kettle of smoking-hot fat. =Doughnuts, 2.=-½ cup butter, 1 cup sugar, 1½ pints flour, 1½ teaspoons Royal Baking Powder, 1 egg, 1½ cups milk, 1 teaspoon extract nutmeg. Rub the butter, sugar, and egg together smooth. Sift the flour and powder together, add it to the butter, the milk, etc. Mix into a soft dough; well flour the board, roll out the dough to ½ inch in thickness, cut out with large biscuit-cutter, and fry to a light brown in plenty of lard made hot for the purpose. Serve with sifted sugar over them. =Doughnuts, 3.=-¾ cup granulated sugar, yolks and whites 2 eggs, 3 tablespoons melted butter or lard, 3 cups flour, 3 heaping teaspoons Royal Baking Powder, ½ teaspoon grated nutmeg. Add beaten whites last, then add enough more flour to make a soft dough. Roll ½ inch thick, cut, and fry as directed. =Doughnuts, 4.=—Sift together 2 teaspoons Royal Baking Powder, 1 quart flour, ½ cup sugar, ⅓