Apple Fritters
INGREDIENTS for sufficient for 6 persons.-2 tablespoonfuls of flour, oz. of butter, saltspoonful of salt, 2 eggs, milk, 4 medium-sized apples, hot lard or clarified beef dripping, sugar, lemon juice.
AVERAGE COST, 1s.
Divide the whites from the yolks of the eggs, and beat them separately. Put the flour into a basin, stir in the butter, which should be melted to a cream; add the salt, and moisten with sufficient warm milk to make it of a proper consistency, that is to say, a batter that will drop from the APPLE FRITTERS. spoon. Stir this well, rub down any lumps that may be seen, add the yolks and then the whites of the eggs, which have been previously well whisked; beat up the batter for a few minutes, and it is ready for use. Peel and cut the apples into rather thick whole slices, without dividing them, and stamp out the core of each slice with a cutter; squeeze some lemon juice over a little sifted sugar, dip the slices in this, then throw them into the batter; have ready a pan of boiling lard or clarified dripping; take out the pieces of apple one by one, put them into the hot lard, and fry a nice brown, turning them when required.
When done, lay them on a piece of blotting-paper before the fire, to absorb the APPLE JAM. greasy moisture; then pile the fritters one above the other; strew over them some pounded sugar, and serve very hot. The batter is better for being mixed some hours before the fritters are made.
TIME. From 7 to 10 minutes to fry the fritters; 5 minutes to drain them.
SEASONABLE from August to March.