Snowball Fritters

Ingredients

• three fresh eggs
• three-quarters of a pint of sour cream
• a tablespoonful of sugar
• a pinch of salt
• half a pound of butter or fat

Method

1. 1

   Break the eggs into a bowl, take out the specks, and beat them well.

2. 2

   Mix with them the sour cream, and add gradually enough flour to make a stiff batter.

3. 3

   Stir in the beer, sugar, salt, and cardamom seeds.

4. 4

   Heat the butter or fat in a saute-pan, drop the batter into this from a spoon, and fry until lightly set.

5. 5

   Drain on a sieve covered with blotting-paper, and serve on a napkin, sifted with powdered sugar.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 4 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Cassell's dictionary of cookery (1892) by Cassell & Company, page 1827. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Snowball Fritters. — Break three fresh eggs into a bowl, take out the specks, and beat them weU. Mix with them three-quarters of a pint of sour cream, and add gradually as much flour as wUl make a batter so stiff that a fork will stand upright in it. Stir into this a quarter of a pint of beer, and add a table- spoonful of sugar, a pinch of salt, and a few cardamom seeds. Make half a pound of butter or fat

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