Mincemeat Fritters
Source: Eliza Acton, 1845
Ingredients
- 1/2 lb mincemeat
- 2 oz bread-crumbs
- 1 tablespoonful flour
- 2 eggs
- 1/2 lemon
- lard
Instructions
- With half a pound of mincemeat mix two ounces of fine bread-crumbs (or a tablespoonful of flour), two eggs well beaten, and the strained juice of half a small lemon.
- Mix these well, and drop the fritters with a dessertspoon into plenty of very pure lard or fresh butter.
- Fry them from seven to eight minutes, drain them on a napkin or on white blotting paper, and send them very hot to table: they should be quite small.
- Proportions: Mincemeat, 1/2 lb.; bread-crumbs, 2 oz. (or flour, 1 tablespoonful); eggs, 2; juice of 1/2 lemon: 7 to 8 minutes.