- 2 eggs
- 1 cup [200 g] sugar
- 1 teaspoon [5 mL] baking soda
- 1 cup [250 mL] milk
- 2 tablespoons [30 mL] melted butter
- 4 cups [560 g] flour
- 2 teaspoons [10 mL] cream of tartar
- 1/2 teaspoon [2.5 mL] nutmeg
- 1 teaspoon [1 mL] cinnamon
- Shortening
- 1 bread cube [to check shortening temperature]
- Strawerry jelly, raspberry jelly or other
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- Into a deep-fryer, preheat enough shortening to 380°F [194°C].
- Beat together eggs and sugar.
- Dissolve baking soda into milk.
- Pour into eggs mixture, along with melted butter; mix well.
- Twice sift together flour, cream of tartar, nutmeg and cinnamon; stir into eggs mixture.
- Roll dough; cut dough using a doughnut-shape cutter.
- Check shortening heat.
- Shortening is hot enough when a bread cube browns in 1 minute.
- Fry doughnuts, a few at a time, until golden brown on one side.
- Flip doughnuts over to brown on the other side; remove doughnuts from fryer.
- Repeat operation with remaining doughnut dough.
- Cut fried doughnuts on one side; fill doughnuts with jelly, or to taste.
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