1881 - What Mrs. Fisher Knows About Old Southern Cooking

Carolas

DDV CULINARY

Five eggs to two cups of sugar;
break eggs into the sugar and beat the whole till perfectly light.
Sift one quart of flour;
take one-half teacup of sweet milk
and put a level teaspoonful of soda in it, without lumps;
one teaspoonful of salt.
Flavor with the juice of one orange,
the peel of half an orange, grated,
and one teaspoonful of butter.
Make the dough in the same way as for light bread;
roll out dough as for biscuit.
Cut them out five inches by two inches,
slice them two inches in the middle and stretch open a little.
Have your fat boiling hot, but do not let it burn.
Put carolas in hot fat, shake skillet gradually till brown.
As you take them out of the fat, lay them in a pan on clean paper,
so as to drain grease from them.