Jelly Buns

Ingredients

• 1 yeast cake
• 1 tablespoon sugar
• 1 1/4 cups milk, scalded and cooled
• 4 1/2 cups sifted flour
• 3 tablespoons butter
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg

Instructions

1. Dissolve yeast and one tablespoon sugar in lukewarm milk, add one and one-half cups of flour, and beat well. Cover and set aside until light, about three-quarters of an hour. Add to sponge creamed butter and sugar, lightly beaten egg, salt, nutmeg, and remainder of flour to make soft dough. Let rise two hours. Roll to one-third inch thickness, cut with cooky-cutter, stretch the dough, put one teaspoon jelly on each piece, wet edges and squeeze tightly together. Cover and let rise again forty-five minutes. Drop in deep fat and cook on each side. Drain on brown paper. Time in cooking, 3 minutes each at 380 degrees fat temperature.