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Fried Cakes with Apple Sauce

From A calendar of dinners, with 615 recipes, 1922.

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Ingredients

20 servings

Method

  1. Cream the Crisco and gradually add the sugar.

  2. Add the salt, nutmeg, lemon extract, soda, baking powder, sour milk, and sufficient flour to make a stiffish dough.

  3. Roll out on a floured baking board, cut with a large round cutter, and fry in hot Crisco until well cooked and browned on both sides.

  4. Drain and serve with hot apple sauce.

Original recipe, verbatim

Fried Cakes with Apple Sauce

1 cupful sugar 1 teaspoonful baking soda

4 tablespoonfuls Crisco 1 teaspoonful baking powder

3 cupfuls sour milk ^ teaspoonful salt
^ teaspoonful grated nutmeg Flour

1 teaspoonful lemon extract Apple sauce

Cream Crisco, gradually add sugar, then add salt, nutmeg, lemon,
soda, baking powder, sour milk and sufficient flour to make stiffish dough.
Roll out on floured baking board, cut with large round cutter, and fry in
hot Crisco until well cooked and nicely browned on both sides. Drain and
serve with hot apple sauce.

Sufficient for twenty cakes.

Transcribed as printed in A calendar of dinners, with 615 recipes, 1922. Spelling and punctuation are left as in the source scan.

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