Sort of doughnut with stewed fruit inside.

4 cups light dough - 2 pounds. 1 bastingspoon molasses. 1 bastingspoon sugar.

1 egg.

1 bastingspoon melted lard.

1/2 cup stewed apple or other fruit.

Lard to fry.

Put the light dough in a pan with all the other ingredients except the fruit, and work them together, and let stand 1/2 hour. Then add flour sufficient to make a soft dough of it and set it to rise about 4 hours. Then roll it out to a very thin sheet and brush over with water. Put a teaspoonful of fruit at the right distances apart on one half of it, fold the other half over and cut with a large biscuit cutter so that the inclosed spots of fruit will be in the middle. Rise on pans like rolls nearly an hour, then drop in hot lard and fry to a fine brown color.

Cost of material - dough 5, molasses and sugar 3, egg 2, stewed fruit 3, flour 2; lard to fry 8; 23 cents for 20.

Note - The mixture of molasses and sugar makes a better color on the dough-nut than sugar alone. Always, when making any kind of fried cake take care to have the sugar dissolved before it goes into the flour, for mixing dry sugar in is one of the main causes of such things soaking up grease. It is an improvement to dredge them with powdered sugar when done.