Common FRITTERS

The Experienced English Housekeeper · Elizabeth Raffald · 1784

Source: The Experienced English Housekeeper
Status: success · extracted 12 days ago
Not a recipe: No

Ingredients (8)

half a pint of ale ↝ Beverages, carbonated, ginger ale [Beverages]
two eggs ↝ Eggs, Grade A, Large, egg whole [Dairy and Egg Products]
flour ↝ Flour, 00 [Cereal Grains and Pasta]
nutmeg ↝ Oil, nutmeg butter [Fats and Oils]
sugar ↝ Sugar, NFS [Sugars and honey]
boiling lard ↝ Lard [Fats and Oils]
sugar grated over them ↝ Sugar, NFS [Sugars and honey]
wine sauce ↝ Wine, rice [Wine]

Instructions (6)

Take half a pint of ale and two eggs, beat in as much flour as will make it rather thicker than a common pudding, with nutmeg and sugar to your taste.
Let it stand three or four minutes to rise.
Drop them with a spoon into a pan of boiling lard.
Fry them a light brown.
Drain them on a sieve.
Serve them up with sugar grated over them, and wine sauce in a boat.

Original Text

To make common FRITTERS.
TAKE half a pint of ale and two eggs, beat in as much flour as will make it rather thicker than a common pudding, with nutmeg and sugar to your taste, let it stand three or four minutes to rise, then drop them with a spoon into a pan of boiling lard, fry them a light brown, drain them on a sieve, serve them up with sugar grated over them, and wine sauce in a boat.

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