Water-Melon Fritters

Ingredients

• Cut a water Melon into strips
• 2oz. of flour
• 1 table-spoonful of salad-oil
• 3 table-spoonfuls of cold water
• the well-whipped whites of two eggs
• caster sugar

Method

1. 1

   Cut the water melon into strips, remove the rind and seeds, sprinkle with caster sugar and finely-chopped lemon-peel, and let them stand for an hour.

2. 2

   Prepare a batter by mixing the yolk of an egg with 2oz. of flour and adding 1 tablespoonful of salad-oil, pouring in 3 tablespoonfuls of cold water, and mixing until quite smooth.

3. 3

   Add the well-whipped whites of two eggs, and stir lightly.

4. 4

   Dip the pieces of Melon in this, plunge them into boiling fat, and fry to a light golden colour, or for ten or twelve minutes.

5. 5

   Take them out, drain, pile them on a napkin spread over a dish, sprinkle with caster sugar, and serve as hot as possible.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 4 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The encyclopaedia of practical cookery (1892) by Theodore Francis Garrett, William A. Rawson, page 513. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Water-Melon Fritters. — Cut a water Melon into strips, remove the rind and seeds, put the pieces into a basin, sprinkle with caster sugar and finely-chopped lemon-peel, and let them stand for an hour or so. Prepare a batter by mixing the yolk of an egg with 2oz. of flour and adding J table-spoonful of salad-oil, pouring in 3 table-spoonfuls of cold water, and mixing until quite smooth. Add the well- whipped whites of two egg

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