Potato Doughnuts

Homemade potato doughnuts are made with mashed potatoes, sugar, eggs, and spiced with nutmeg and mace and fried in oil.

Serve them warm for breakfast or brunch.

Try this doughnut recipe today and watch your family head for the kitchen, waiting for the warm, fresh doughnuts to be cool enough to eat!

Potato Doughnut Recipe

3/4 cup sugar
2 eggs, beaten
1/4 cup milk
3 Tablespoon lard (or butter), melted
1 cup mashed potatoes
3 cups sifted flour
4 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
1/2 teaspoon mace (*see below for description)

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Vegetable Oil or Lard for frying
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Kitchen Equipment Needed

Two medium mixing bowls
deep fryer or deep walled skillet

Instructions:

Step 1: In a medium mixing bowl, mix the sugar, eggs and milk.

Step 2: Mix in lard and shredded potatoes to the sugar and egg mixture.

Step 3: In a separate bowl, sift together the flour, baking powder, salt, nutmeg, and mace.

Step 4: Add dry ingredients to the wet mixture. Mix well.

Step 5: Chill dough until stiff.

Step 6: On a floured board, roll out dough until 1/3" thick.

Step 7: Cut doughnuts with a doughnut cutter. Let stand and rest 5-10 minutes.

Step 8: Heat oil and fry in hot fat.

*Mace is a spice that is derived from the outer shell of nutmeg. It has a similar flavor and aroma to nutmeg, but more delicate. You may substitute an additional 1/2 teaspoon of nutmeg in this recipe for the mace if you do not have that on hand.

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