Grace's Doughnuts

2 eggs--beaten

1/2 cup sugar

2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder

1/4 teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon HOT melted butter

1/2 teaspoon nutmeg

1/2 teaspoon ginger

1/2 cup milk

1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour

Beat eggs until thick and lemon colored. Add rest of ingredients. On a bread board dusted with flour and a little ginger, roll out 1/2 inch thick and cut with doughnut cutter. Let stand for 1 hour covered with a lines towel. Deep fry in fat at 400 degrees.. Remove from fat, shake off excess fat and shake in a paper bag full of cinnamon and granulated sugar or confectioners sugar.