Old Fashioned Doughnuts

1/2 cup butter
2 cups sugar
3 eggs
1 1/2 cups milk
Nutmeg or cinnamon
3 rounded teaspoons baking powder
5 cups flour

Cream together the butter and sugar.  Beat the eggs very light and add, with the milk, to the creamed butter and sugar, then add nutmeg or cinnamon.

Sift the baking powder with the flour three times, and add to the above mixture, mixing thoroughly.  Keep the dough as soft as possible, just so it can be handled.  Roll out 1/4 inch thick.  Cut in rounds, and fry in deep, hot fat.

Turn them as soon as they rise, and often till brown.  Cool and then sprinkle with powdered sugar.

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