Celestina's Fritters
Origin: Rosario
Source: Celestina Funes de Frutos, 1890
Ingredients
- 1 lb fine flour (flor de harina)
- salt
- 5 oz butter
- 20 egg yolks, beaten
- 8 egg whites, beaten
- butter (for frying)
- red-wine syrup (almíbar de vino tinto)
- cinnamon (for dusting)
Instructions
- Cook flour with salt and butter, stirring, until it squeaks; cool.
- When lukewarm, mix in twenty beaten yolks and eight beaten whites.
- Drop spoonfuls into boiling butter and fry until browned.
- Keep warm under a cloth; serve with red-wine syrup and cinnamon.