Ingredients
- •4 count eggs(beaten until light)
- •2/3 cup sugar
- •1/2 cup shortening(melted)
- •1/3 cup milk
- •3 1/2 cups bread flour
- •1/2 teaspoon soda (baking soda)
- •1/2 teaspoon cream of tartar
- •1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
- • Fat(for deep frying)
- • Powdered sugar(for sprinkling)
Instructions
- 1
Beat 4 eggs until light.
- 2
Add sugar, melted shortening, and milk to the eggs.
- 3
Sift bread flour with soda, cream of tartar, and nutmeg.
- 4
Add the dry ingredients to the first (wet) mixture.
- 5
Immerse clothespins first in hot fat so dough will not stick.
This instruction appears at the bottom of the card but is a preparatory step.
- 6
Roll dough 1/4 inch thick and cut in strips 9 inches long and 1/2 inch wide.
- 7
Wrap strips around nine-inch clothespins starting just above the division in the clothespins. Slip the end of dough between the two tips of the pin.
- 8
Lay in fat heated to 375 degrees.
- 9
Drain on brown paper.
- 10
Take out clothespins and sprinkle with powdered sugar.