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Fritters, Plain

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INGREDIENTS for dish for 4 persons.-3 oz. of flour, 3 eggs, pint of milk. AVERAGE COST, 4d.

Mix the flour to a smooth batter with a small quantity of the milk; stir in the eggs, which should be well whisked, and then the remainder of the milk: beat the whole FRITTERS. to a perfectly smooth batter, and should it be found not quite thin enough, add two or three tablespoonfuls more milk. Have ready a frying-pan, with plenty of boiling lard in it; drop in rather more than a tablespoonful at a time of the batter, and fry the fritters a nice brown, turning them when sufficiently cooked on one side. Drain them well from the greasy moisture by FRITTERS, RECIPES FOR. placing them upon a piece of blotting-paper before the fire; dish them on a white d'oyley, sprinkle over them sifted sugar, and send to table with them a cut lemon, and plenty of pounded sugar.

TIME.-From 6 to 8 minutes.

SEASONABLE at any time.

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