Apple Fritters

Ingredients

• one cup sweet milk
• two cups flour
• a heaping teaspoon baking powder
• two eggs beaten separately
• one tablespoon sugar
• saltspoon salt
• six good sized apples
• juice two lemons
• a little cream
• two cups chopped apple
• one teaspoon salt

Method

1. 1

   Make a batter with sweet milk, flour, baking powder, beaten eggs, sugar, and salt.

2. 2

   Heat milk slightly, add to yolks and sugar, then mix in flour and beaten egg whites.

3. 3

   Stir in thin slices of sour apples and fry in lard.

4. 4

   Alternatively, mix eggs, salt, sugar, milk, chopped apples, and flour, flavor with nutmeg, and fry.

5. 5

   Serve with syrup.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 10 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The new practical housekeeping (1890) by Estelle Woods Wilcox, page 218. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Apple Fritters. — Make a batter in proportion of one cup sweet milk to two cups flour, a heaping teaspoon baking powder, two eggs beaten separately, one tablespoon sugar, and saltspoon salt ; heat the milk a little more than milk-warm, add slowly to the beaten yolks and sugar, then add flour and whites of eggs ; stir all together and throw in thiu aiices of good sour apples, dipping the batter up over them ; drop in lard in large spoonfuls with piece of apple in each, and fry to a light brown. Serve with maple svrup or a nice sjrrup made of sugar. Another way of making is to Seat three eggs very lightly, stir in one teaspoon salt, one-half cup sugar, one pint milk, two cups chopped apple and two cups flour. Flavor with nutmeg. Stir all well together and fry as directed in preface; sift sugar over them and serve. Or, peel, steam and pulp six good sized apples, add juice two lemons, four well-beaten eggs, sugar to taste and a Jittle cream

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