Egg Plant Fritters

Ingredients

• a large-sized egg plant
• teaspoon salt
• plenty of pepper
• two tablespoons flour
• a half cup cream or milk
• three eggs

Method

1. 1

   Boil the egg plant until soft, then mash.

2. 2

   Add salt, pepper, flour, cream, and eggs.

3. 3

   Fry in hot fat until browned on both sides.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The new practical housekeeping (1890) by Estelle Woods Wilcox, page 221. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Egg Plant Fritters. — Take a large-sized egg plant, leave on stem and skin and boil in porcelain kettle until very soft, just so that it can be taken out with the aid of a fork or spoon ; take off all the skin and mash very fine in ajj earthen bowl. When cold add teaspoon salt, plenty m pepper, two tablespoons flour, a half cup cream or milk and tnree eggs. Have fat hot, drop in batter as for any fritters and brown nicely on each side. Grape Fritters. — Cup flour, yolks of two eggs, two tablespoons salad oil, pinch each spice and salt, and enough cold water to make a batter about like sponge cake. When mixed smoothly add whites of eggs beaten to stiff froth. Dip little clusters of grapes in the batter and fry in smoking hot fat. Take up, drain, dust with pow- dered sugar, and serve either hot or cold as a dessert. hominy Fritters. — Mix well one pint boiled hominy, one gill cream, two tablespoons com starch, two eggs, half teaspoon baking powder, saltspoon salt. If too stiff add a little more cream or milk. Pry, drain and dust as above, and serve with any sauce liked. Italian Fritters. — With a wooden spatula stir rapidly into one pound sifted flour one and a half pints boiling water. Add three or four eggs, one at a time, and beat well in, thus forming a very delicate batter paste. Press this through a syringe or confec- tioners' bag into hot lard, and as soon as a bright yellow color thejr are done. Drain in colander, pile on a dish and powder plenti- fully with fine sugar. This is a favorite dish in Italy, called there **cinci." May be served with a sauce if liked. Lemon Fritters. — Three eggs

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