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Mi-Careme Fritters (Rome)

From With a saucepan over the sea, 1902

Serves 4

Always eaten with gooseberry jam in Italy for supper.

Presented as published in 1902. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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Ingredients

Method

As published

This recipe was extracted from With a saucepan over the sea (1902) by Adelaide Keen, page 66. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

MI-CAREME FRITTERS. (Rome.) These are eaten in Lent all over Rome ; they are peddled along the street. Boil 3 cups of milk, add sugar to taste, i ounce of butter, and the yolks of 4 eggs, and enough corn meal — called semolina in Italy — to make a firm paste, a tablespoonful of brandy

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