Currant Fritters

Ingredients

• 1/2 pint milk
• 2 tablespoonful flour
• 4 eggs
• 3 tablespoonful boiled rice
• 3 tablespoonful currants
• sugar to taste
• a very little grated nutmeg
• hot lard or clarified dripping

Instructions

1. Put the milk into a basin with the flour, which should previously be rubbed to a smooth batter with a little cold milk;
2. stir these ingredients together;
3. add the well-whisked eggs, the rice, currants, sugar, and nutmeg.
4. Beat the mixture for a few minutes, and, if not sufficiently thick, add a little more boiled rice; drop it, in small quantities, into a pan of boiling lard or clarified dripping;
5. fry the fritters a nice brown, and, when done, drain them on a piece of blotting-paper, before the fire.
6. Pile them on a white d'oyley, strew over sifted sugar, and serve them very hot.
7. Send a cut lemon to table with them.