Fruit Fritters

Ingredients

• about ten ounces of flour
• Sweeten to taste
• flavour with nutmeg
• cinnamon, &c.
• a glass of any liquor or brandy
• the whites of two eggs
• fry at once, in boiling butter or lard
• Fruits, such as pine-apple, apple, orange, peach, kc

Method

1. 1

   Make a batter with flour, sweeten and flavor it.

2. 2

   Stir in the whisked egg whites.

3. 3

   Fry sliced fruits dipped in the batter in boiling butter or lard.

4. 4

   For vegetables, mix savory herbs and salt into the batter instead of sugar.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Cassell's dictionary of cookery (1892) by Cassell & Company, page 558. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

about ten oimces of flour. Sweeten to taste, and flavour with nutmeg, cinnamon, &c., and a glass of any liquor or brandy. Stir in the whites of two eggs well whisked, and fry at once, in boiling butter or lard Fruits, such as pine-apple, apple, orange, peach, kc, should be cut in sUces, dipped in the batter, fried nicely, and when dried before the fire, strewed ■Nvith sifted sugar. Such fruits as strawberries, cherries, apricots, and raspberries, should be thrown into the batter, and a spoon- ful poured into the boiling fat ; all stones must be previously removed. For frying vegetables, mix into the batter, in the place of sugar, &c., savoury herbs and salt. Time, about ten minutes to fry. Sufficient for four or five persons. Fruit Fritters

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