Doughnuts - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 Tbsp. butter
2 c. sugar
1 pt. mashed potatoes
5 c. flour
5 tsp. baking powder
3 eggs
1 c. milk
nutmeg or vanilla

Preparation

Put butter and sugar into hot mashed potatoes; beat until dissolved.
Sift baking powder and flour together.
To the butter and sugar mixture, beat in 1 egg at a time, then add the milk and flavoring.
Add flour slowly until dough is easy to handle.
Cut with doughnut cutter.
Fry in hot fat.
Makes 5 dozen.