Clam Fritters

Ingredients

• Two dozen clams
• one egg
• one cup milk
• two small cups flour
• salt and pepper

Method

1. 1

   Chop clams, stir into batter made of milk, clam liquor, beaten egg, and flour.

2. 2

   Fry by spoonful in hot lard.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from What to eat, how to serve it (1891) by Christine Terhune Herrick, page 19. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Clam Fritters. Boiled Potatoes. English Muffins. Tea. Coffee. Clam Prittera. — Two dozen clams, one egg, one cup milk, two small cups flour, or enough for thin batter, salt and pep- per. Chop the clams fine, and stir them into the batter made of the milk, clam liquor, beaten eggs, and the flour. Season to taste, and fry by the spoonful in very hot lard. English Muffins, — Two cups milk, one tablespoonful butter, one teaspoonful sugar, saltspoonful salt, half of a yeast-cake. Four cups flour, or enough to make a very stiff batter. Set to rise for about three hours, or until the batter is like a honeycomb, then bake on a soapstone griddle in very large raruffin- rings. Make them the day before they are wanted, and, when ready to use them, split, toast lightly, butter, and eat hot. 74 FAMILY BREAKFASTS FOR AUTUMN 8. Oranges. Large Hominy. Fried Smelts. Moulded Potato. Hasty Muffins. Tea. Coflfee. Moulded Potato, — Press cold mashed po- tato into small teacups ; turn out, brush over with yolk of ^gg^ put a bit of butter on top of each, and brown in the oven. Hasty Muffins. — Two cups flour, two eggs, one tablespoonful mixed butter and lard, two teaspoonfuls white sugar, one teaspoon- f ul baking-powder, saltspoonful salt, one cup milk. Into the eggs, beaten very light, stir the melted shortening, the sugar, the milk, and the flour, well mixed with the salt and baking-powder. Stir well, and bake in thoroughly greased tins. 9. Grapes. Cerealine cooked in Milk. Egg Timbales with Cheese. Lyonnaise Potatoes. Wheat Puffs. Egg Tirnhales with Cheese, — Six eggs, one 75 WHAT TO EAT — HOW TO SERVE IT gill milk, salt and pepper

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