Maizena Fritters

Ingredients

• 8oz. of butter
• 1oz. of sugar
• 1 wineglassful of water
• 2oz. of Maizena
• 24oz. of flour
• three eggs

Method

1. 1

   Melt 8oz. of butter in a saucepan, add 1oz. of sugar and 0.5 wineglassful of water.

2. 2

   When boiling, add 2oz. of Maizena mixed with a little water and 24oz. of flour.

3. 3

   Remove from heat and let sit for fifteen minutes.

4. 4

   Mix in three eggs, adjusting with more egg if too stiff.

5. 5

   Take spoonfuls and fry in boiling fat until golden.

6. 6

   Serve hot.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The encyclopaedia of practical cookery (1892) by Theodore Francis Garrett, William A. Rawson, page 449. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

4oz. of flour and 1 heaped table spoonful of baking-powder, and sift the whole through a fine sieve. Slightly warm 3oz. of butter, and beat it well together with 5 table-spoonfuls of caster sugar and f teacupful of milk. Stir the beaten mixture in with the flour, mixing the whole smoothly together, and flavour with 1 table spoonful of rose-water and 4 table- spoonful of essence of almonds; then whisk the whites of four eggs to a stiff froth, and stir them in lightly with the above mixture. Butter a cake-tin, pour the mixture into it, and bake in a moderate oven. When cooked, turn the cake out of the tin and cover it with the following : Mix the white of one egg with 4 table-spoonfuls of caster sugar and 4 table-spoonful of lemon-juice, and beat them well until light and frothy. Maizena Cream Tart. — Add 2oz. of caster sugar to a little less than 1 teacupful of boiling milk, and mix in 3oz. of butter and a little salt. Remove the pan from the fire, and stir in the yolks of two eggs beaten up in 1 wine- glassful of milk and ‘2oz. of Maizena. Put the pan back on the fire, and boil for five minutes longer, stirring con- tinually. Pour it into a bowl, whip until perfectly cold, pour it into a baked open-tart case, and serve. Maizena Fritters.— Put 8oz. of butter in a saucepan over the fire, and when a little warm, add about loz. of sugar and \ wineglassful of water. When it begins to boil, add 2oz. of Maizena, mixed in a little water, and 24oz. of hour. Remove the pan from the fire, and let it remain for fifteen minutes for the paste to dry, and then mix in three eggs

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