Plain Fritters

Origin: London, England

Source: Isabella Beeton, 1861

Ingredients

Instructions

  1. Mix the flour to a smooth batter with a small quantity of the milk;
  2. stir in the eggs, which should be well whisked, and then the remainder of the milk; boat the whole to a perfectly smooth batter, and should it be found not quite thin enough, add two or three tablespoonfuls more milk.
  3. 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.
  4. Drain them well from the greasy moisture by placing them upon a piece of blotting-paper before the fire;
  5. 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.

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