On your oven, set to preheat at 325 degrees F. After doing so, lightly grease a donut pan.

Take out a large bowl. In this bowl, mix your flour, baking soda, sugar, nutmeg, cinnamon, and salt together. Stir in milk, eggs, vanilla and shortening now, and beat this together well and until it is all blended.

Fill each of your donut cups about 3/4 of the way full with the batter. Bake these donuts for about 8 to 10 minutes in the oven which is already preheated, and until the donuts spring back when touched.

Allow these donuts to cool before removing from the pan.

To make your glaze, blend together your confectioners' sugar, almond extract, and hot water into a small bowl. Dip your donuts into this glaze when serving.