Recipe - Doughnuts (Fastnachts- A Shrove Tuesday Tradition)

2 cup Milk
1 cup Yeast
*dissolved in:
1 cup Water, warm
1 cup Sugar
One fourth teaspoon Salt
6 cup Flour
3 Egg, well beaten
One half teaspoon Nutmeg
One fourth cup Butter, melted

Scald the milk and set aside to cool to lukewarm. To the dissolved
yeast add One half cup of flour and mix to a batter. Add to the milk. Stir
in 1 tsp of the sugar and about 3 cups of flour. Set in a warm place
to rise over night. In the morning, add the wellbeaten eggs, nutmeg,
butter, sugar, and salt and mix thoroughly. Stir in enough flour
until batter can no longer be stirred with a spoon. Set aside to rise
until light. Roll on a wellfloured board and cut with a doughnut
cutter. Let rise again, and then fry in hot fat until golden brown.
Source: Pennsylvania Dutch Cook Book Fine Old Recipes, Culinary
Arts Press, 1936.

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