French Fritters

Ingredients

• Pbovidb one quart of fresh milk
• sift one quart of fine flour
• the whites and yolks of ten eggs
• Add a teaspoonful of salt.
• One pound of lard should be allowed for the frying.

Method

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   Mix flour with half the milk to a paste, thicken the other half with it, cool, add beaten eggs, and fry in boiling lard.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 12 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Virginia Cookery-book (1884) by Mary Stuart Smith, page 139. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

French Fritters. — Bell Fritters. — Rice Fritters. — Puff Fritters. — Apple Fritters. — Spanish Fritters. — Snow-flake Sauce. — Beny- ville Fritters.— Quaking Pudding.— Pancakes.— Scotch Pancakes. Fbench Fbittbbs. Pbovidb one quart of fresh milk ; sift one quart of fine flour and mix it to a paste with half the milk ; put the other half on the fire in a preserving-kettle, and as soon as it boils thicken it with the paste, and stirring steadi- ly let it cook until very well done ; then set it aside to cool in a large bowl or pan. Meanwhile beat separately, until perfectly light, the whites and yolks of ten eggs, mix them, and add to the batter a spoonful at a time un- til all is in. Add a teaspoonful of salt. Have a small oven ready, half -full of boiling lard ; drop into it, for each fritter, not quite a spoonful of the batter, and take the fritters out with a perforated ladle before they turn dark. Begin to fry your fritters before the meat dinner is taken up, and when fried a pretty, brown put them into a colan- der, so that every particle of lard may drain from them. Eat with hot, boiled molasses, wine and sugar, or any sweet sauce that you like best. Bell Fbittebs. Put one quart of water into a kettle, with a large spoon- ful of butter ; set it on a slow fire, and stir into it by degrees one quart of flour, adding a teaspOonful of salt. VIMQINIA COOKERY-BOOK, 301 When perfectly smooth pour it into a dish to cool ; then beat six eggs very light, the whites and yolks separately, and then knead all together. Make the dough into small balls and drop into boiling lard ; when of a light-brown dish them. This quantity will serve a family of eight persons. One pound of lard should be allowed for the frying.

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