Aberdeen Crulla Cake

Ingredients

• 1/4 lb of butter
• 1/4 lb pounded and sifted loaf sugar
• 4 eggs
• Flour

Directions

1. Beat butter.
2. Mix butter with sugar and eggs.
3. Add flour until the mixture is thick enough to roll out.
4. Roll out the mixture and cut into oblong strips, 4 or 5 inches in length.
5. Wet the edges of 3 or 4 strips.
6. Plait one strip over another, so they meet in the center.
7. Repeat steps 5 and 6 until all strips have been used.
8. Fry each plait into boiling lard, or clarified suet until light brown.
9. Drain each plait.
10. Cover them with pounded sugar.

Source — Creole Cookery Book
Prepared by Devon Knudsen
Louisiana Anthology
December 8, 2020