Name: Puff-Ball Doughnuts
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 10 fresh and warm; 1 delicious breakfast dish and are quickly made; 3 eggs; 1 cupful of sugar; 1 pint of sweet milk; 2 heaping teaspoonfuls of baking powder to the flour; 1 bit of fat and are not at all rich and consequently are the least injurious of this kind of cakes

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These doughnuts, eaten fresh and warm, are a delicious breakfast dish and are quickly made. Three eggs, one cupful of sugar, a pint of sweet milk, salt, nutmeg and flour enough to permit the spoon to stand upright in the mixture; add two heaping teaspoonfuls of baking powder to the flour; beat all until very light. Drop by the dessertspoonful into boiling lard. These will not absorb a bit of fat and are not at all rich and consequently are the least injurious of this kind of cakes.

10 fresh and warm
1 delicious breakfast dish and are quickly made
3 eggs
1 cupful of sugar
1 pint of sweet milk
2 heaping teaspoonfuls of baking powder to the flour
1 bit of fat and are not at all rich and consequently are the least injurious of this kind of cakes

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1

These doughnuts, eaten fresh and warm, are a delicious breakfast dish and are quickly made.
2

Three eggs, one cupful of sugar, a pint of sweet milk, salt, nutmeg and flour enough to permit the spoon to stand upright in the mixture; add two heaping teaspoonfuls of baking powder to the flour; beat all until very light.
3

Drop by the dessertspoonful into boiling lard.
4

These will not absorb a bit of fat and are not at all rich and consequently are the least injurious of this kind of cakes.

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