WATER FRITTERS

The Experienced English Housekeeper · Elizabeth Raffald · 1784
Source
The Experienced English Housekeeper
Status
success · extracted 13 days ago
Not a recipe
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Ingredients (7)
Fritter batter
For frying
Instructions (7)
  1. Mix water, flour, and salt together.
  2. Beat the yolks and whites of eight eggs with a little brandy.
  3. Strain the eggs through a hair sieve and add them to the batter.
  4. Let the batter stand as long as possible before frying.
  5. Just before frying, melt about half a pound of butter very thick and beat it into the batter.
  6. Fry the fritters without turning them.
  7. Take care not to burn them.
Original Text
To make WATER FRITTERS. TAKE a quart of water, five or six spoonfuls of flour (the batter must be very thick) and a little salt; mix all these together, and beat the yolks and whites of eight eggs with a little brandy, then strain them through a hair sieve, and put them to the other things; the longer they stand before you fry them the better. Just before you fry them, melt about half a pound of butter very thick, and beat it well in; you must not turn them, and take care not to burn them: the best thing to fry them in is fine lard.
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