Orange Knots - a new kind of doughnut
Ingredients
- 3 tablespoonfuls Crisco
- 3/4 cupful of sugar
- 1 egg 1 yolk beaten light
- grated rind 1 orange
- 1/4 teaspoonful mace
- 4 cupfuls sifted flour
- 1/2 teaspoonful salt
- 1 1/2 teaspoonfuls of cream of tartar
- 1/2 teaspoonfuls soda
- 1/2 cup milk
Directions
- Cream the Crisco, beat in the sugar, the eggs, orange rind, and mace. Sift together the dry ingredients; add the first mixture and the milk and mix to a firm dough. Cut off bits of the dough and roll with the fingers into strips the shape and length of a lead pencil, tie in a knot or shape like an 8 and fry in hot Crisco; drain on soft paper, and dredge with confectioners' sugar.