Recipe - Buttermilk Drop Doughnuts

Vegetable oil
2 cup Allpurpose flour
One fourth cup Sugar
1 teaspoon Salt
1 teaspoon Baking powder
1 teaspoon Ground nutmeg
One half teaspoon Baking soda
One fourth cup Vegetable oil
Three fourths cup Buttermilk
1 Egg
Sugar or cinnamon sugar

Heat oil (2 to 3 inches) in Dutch oven to 375F. Mix flour, sugar, salt,
baking powder, nutmeg and baking soda in large bowl. Add oil, buttermilk
and egg; beat with fork until smooth. Drop batter by teaspoonfuls (do not
make too large or they will not cook through) into hot oil. Fry about 3
minutes or until golden brown on both sides; drain on paper towels.
Immediately roll in sugar.

YIELD: about 3 One half dozen drop doughnuts

Recipe by: Betty Crocker's OldFashioned Cookbook

Posted to BakeryShoppe Digest V1 #192 by Sean Coate swcoate@peganet.com
on Aug 16, 1997