Grandma Huett'S Doughnuts - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1/2 c. sugar
1 tsp. salt
4 Tbsp. butter
7 Tbsp. lard
4 eggs
2 c. cake flour
2 c. sweet milk
3 cakes compressed yeast
1 tsp. vanilla
5 c. plain flour
1 lb. powdered sugar
1/2 to 2/3 c. water

Preparation

Mix by dissolving yeast in milk containing vanilla, eggs, butter, lard, sugar and salt.
Cream until light.
Sift cake flour in mixture.
Add plain flour.
Heat 5 minutes.
Dough should be like biscuit dough.
Let rise double in size.
Turn dough on floured board.
Roll 1/4-inch thick.
Cut out with doughnut cutter.
Let rise until double in size in warm place.
Fry in deep fat.