WWI Salvation Army Doughnuts

4 cups flour

1½ teaspoon salt

4 teaspoons baking powder

1 cup sugar

¼ teaspoon nutmeg

¼ teaspoon cinnamon

½ teaspoon butter

1 cup milk

1 well-beaten egg

1 gallon of vegetable oil

Place flour, salt, baking powder and sugar in a bowl. Whisk together. In another small bowl, mix the nutmeg and cinnamon and set aside. Using fingers, mix in butter with dry ingredients. Add the milk and egg and mix together. Place the dough on a floured board and roll out to a quarter-inch. Use a doughnut cutter to cut out the doughnuts.

Heat about a gallon of vegetable oil in a pot or roaster pan. Use a slotted spoon to place doughnuts in the hot oil. (Just put a few in at a time so the oil temperature doesn't come down.) When both sides are light brown, remove from the oil and place on a drying rack. Sprinkle with the cinnamon/nutmeg.

Makes about a dozen doughnuts.