Dough Nuts—A Yankee Cake
Dough Nuts—A Yankee Cake
Mary Randolph, The Virginia Housewife; or, Methodical Cook, 1824
Dry half a pound of good brown sugar, pound it, and mix it with two pounds of flour, and sift it; add two spoonsful of yeast, and as much new milk as will make it like bread: when well risen, knead in half a pound of butter, make it in cakes the size of a half dollar, and fry them a light brown in boiling lard.
Image: John Frederick Peto. Breakfast, c. 1890s. National Gallery of Art, Washington, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 1999.79.29.
