Dough Nuts—A Yankee Cake

Ingredients

• 1/2 pound good brown sugar
• 2 pounds flour
• 2 spoonfuls yeast
• new milk
• 1/2 pound butter
• lard

Instructions

1. Dry half a pound of good brown sugar, pound it, mix it with two pounds of flour, and sift it.
2. Add two spoonsful of yeast, and as much new milk as will make it like bread.
3. When well risen, knead in half a pound of butter.
4. Make it in cakes the size of a half dollar.
5. Fry them a light brown in boiling lard.