French Fritters

Ingredients

• I tumbler water
• I cup butter
• I teaspoon sugar
• i teaspoon salt
• one heaping pint of flour
• five have been broken in

Method

1. 1

   Put all together in stew pan on the stove, and when well heated so that the butter is thoroughly melted, stir in rapidly the flour.

2. 2

   Take it from the fire and break in the eggs, blend it, and drop spoonfuls of this mixture in very hot lard and butter.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Queen Cook Book: A Careful Compilation of Recipes and Practical ... (1895) by William Hart Boyd, page 8. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

French Fritters. I tumbler water '^ cup butter I teaspoon sugar i teaspoon salt Put all together in stew pan on the stove, and when well heated so that the butter is thoroughly melted, stir in rapidly one heaping pint of flour. Take it from the fire and break in one egg, blend it and break in another, and then another, till five have been broken in; then in very hot lard and butter drop spoonfuls of this mixture and cook as fritters. When you take them out roll them in sugar and cinnamon, or eat with fairy butter, as you like. From a French Chef in Heidelberg. Fried Cakes. I cup milk I tablespoon butter I cup fine sugar 2 teaspoonsbaking-powder I teaspoon salt . i egg Sift the baking powder into flour enough to make a soft dough, say one quart or more of flour. Roll out one-half inch thick or less, then cut in strips and twist, or cut with cutter, then with smaller cutter cut a hole in center and fry in fat. Queen of Doughnuts. I cup butter

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