Elder-Flower Fritters

Ingredients

• a tablespoonful of brandy to each pint of flowers
• the yolks of three eggs
• a saltspoonful of salt
• a heaping teaspoonful of sugar
• two ounces of wheat flour
• a pint of elder flowers
• a tablespoonful of olive oil

Method

1. 1

   Soak elder flowers in salted water for an hour, then pick off the flowers.

2. 2

   Mix with brandy, egg yolks, salt, sugar, flour, and olive oil.

3. 3

   Drop spoonfuls into hot fat and serve with brandy sauce.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Luncheon (1888) by Thomas J. Murrey, page 17. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

ELDER-FLOWER FRITTERS. Elder-Flower Fritters. — (The elder bush is found growing in waste and neglected places, and may be recognized by its large bunches of minute flowers arranged in umbellate and race- mose cymes, the corolla or crown being wheel- shaped and fine-cleft.) Gather the flowers when fully developed, and let them stand in cold water, slightly salted, for an hour; take them out of the water, and pick off the flowers. Sprinkle over them a tablespoonful of brandy to each pint of flowers. Beat the yolks of three eggs ; add a saltspoonful of salt, a heaping teaspoonful of sugar, two ounces of wheat flour, and a pint of elder flowers, and stir into the mixture a tablespoonful of oliv^e oi

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