Doughnuts - cooking recipe

Ingredients

2 to 4 Tbsp. pure lard
3/4 c. sugar
2 eggs
1 c. milk
1/2 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. nutmeg
4 c. flour
4 tsp. baking powder

Preparation

Soften butter with a fork, add sugar and well beaten eggs.
Mix 3 cups of flour with the other dry ingredients and add alternately with milk and mix to the first mixture.
If necessary, add more flour until the dough is soft.
Form a ball and refrigerate 1/2 to one hour to firm.
Roll dough 1/8-inch thick on a slightly floured board or table.
Cut with a pastry cutter in the shape of a doughnut.
When all the doughnuts are shaped and cut, cook in a deep fryer or a large skillet in which three inches of fat or shortening or vegetable oil has been heated to 325\u00b0 approximately. Place 3 to 4 (depending on the size of the doughnuts and the surface of the frying pot available) gently into the heated fat/oil.
Cook one side until gold color shows on the edge, turn, cook the other side until golden; remove from pot and continue to cook rest of doughnuts.
Makes approximately 50 doughnuts.