100 Year Old Donut Recipe

I’d venture to say that this fits in the really old recipes category. I never know what treasures will appear for me to abscond with.

Most experts agree that the popularity of the doughnut — one of America’s favorite delicacies — dates back to World War I. Millions of homesick U.S. infantrymen, otherwise known as doughboys, were served this tasteful delight by women volunteers in France. Though the doughnut’s creation predates the war, it didn’t gain steam in the country until the soldiers came back home yearning for more.

According to the Smithsonian Magazine, the first doughnut machine was invented by Russian refugee Adolph Levitt in New York in 1920, following an intense demand for the fried and sweetened dough. All of this is to say that doughnuts, in general, were very much sought-after in the states. For those of you who are interested in trying one of the original doughnut recipes, don’t worry. Recently, Lora Vogt, curator of education at the National WWI Museum and Memorial in Kansas City, Mo., shared one with Fox News.

NOTE: READ THE WHOLE RECIPE BEFORE YOU START

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Ingredients:

• 5 cups of flour

• 5 tsp. of baking soda

• 2 cups of sugar

• 1/4 tsp. of salt

• 2 eggs

• 1 3/4 cups of milk

• 1 tub lard

Instructions:

1. Mix the flour, baking soda, sugar, salt, eggs and milk in a bowl.

2. Knead the dough, roll it and cut it into rings that are less than a quarter of an inch thick.

3. Drop the rings into the hot lard.

4. Turn the doughnuts several times until they are brown.

5. Remove the doughnuts from the lard and get rid of the excess fat.

6. Powder the doughnuts with sugar and let them cool.

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