Apple Butter Pumpkin Fritters (1946)

• 1 cup unsifted flour
• 1 egg
• 1/3 cup canned, unsweetened pumpkin
• 1/4 cup raisins
• 1 1/2 tspns baking powder
• 1 tspn cinnamon
• 1/2 tspn salt
• 2 tbspns each of milk, molasses, apple butter, melted shortening
• 1/4 tspn each of nutmeg, ginger, allspice

Mix dry ingredients with raisins.  Stir in rest of ingredients just until smooth.

Drop from a teaspoon into deep hot fat, and fry at 350 degrees about 2 minutes, or until crisp and very brown.

Drain on paper towels. Makes 18. Serve at once.  

(Origin - "Receipts - Stephenson's Apple Farm Restaurant," 1967.  Stephenson's Apple Farm Restaurant, family owned and run, was located in Kansas City Missouri from 1946 until its closing in 2007.)

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