Homemade Doughnuts

Homemade Doughnuts

Doughnuts (Grandma Mary Lous)
2 pkgs yeast ¾ cup sugar
¾ cup water ¾ cup crisco
¾ cup milk
Flour to make soft dough (2 to 2 ½ cups)
3eggs
1 tsp salt
1 tsp nutmeg
1 tsp vanilla

Dissolve yeast in warm water. Let set about 10 minutes. Scald milk and crisco together.
Cool to luke warm. Then add flour to make sponge. Let set until light, about ½ hour. Add eggs, sugar, salt, nutmeg and vanilla and rest of flour (3 to 3 ½ cups) to make a soft dough that can be handled easily. Let rise until double in bulk (approx. 1 hr). Roll & cut out. Let rise again until very light. Fry in hot grease (350 to 375 degrees). Dip in Icing or roll in sugar or powder sugar.

By: Lindsay Doughty