Banana Fritters

Ingredients

• Four bananas
• three ounces of flour
• one dessert spoonful of salad oil
• one gill of tepid water
• white of one egg
• three ounces of butter

Method

1. 1

   Put the flour into a bowl, pour into the centre the salad oil and add the water gradually, mixing the flour in.

2. 2

   Whip the white of egg to a stiff froth and stir it into the mixture.

3. 3

   Melt butter in a frying pan, dip banana slices into the batter, place them flat side down, and baste with hot butter until light brown.

4. 4

   Remove carefully and serve on a flat china fruit plate with fine sugar if desired.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The art of cooking (1880) by Matilda Lees Dods, page 60. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Banana Fritters. — Four bananas, three ounces of flour, one dessert spoonful of salad oil, one gill of tepid water, white of one egg. Put the flour into a bowl, pour into the centre of it the salad oil and add by degrees the water, mixing the flour in from the sides as the water is poured over. Whip the white of egg to a stiff* froth and stir it to- gether with the mixture in the bowl very lightly. Take the skin from the bananas and split them into halves. Melt in a frying pan three ounces of butter

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