Bygone Recipes – Pastry

Ingredients

• 1 cup flour (approx. 120g)
• 2 tablespoons sugar
• ½ teaspoon salt
• grated rind 1 lemon
• 2 eggs
• ½ cup milk (120ml)

Method

1. Mix and sift the dry ingredients; add beaten yolks, lemon rind, and milk.
2. Beat, cut and fold in the beaten whites of eggs and use for all kinds of fruits.
3. Apple Fritters – Core and pare apples, cut in round slices. For each eight apples, mix one fourth cup sugar and four tablespoons lemon juice. Let apples stand in this mixture for one hour; dip in Fritter Batter; fry in hot fat; drain on brown paper. Sprinkle with sugar.
4. Banana Fritters – Remove skins from four bananas. Cut each one in four equal parts. Sprinkle with four tablespoons sugar, four tablespoons lemon juice, or wine, and let stand one hour. Dip in Fritter Batter; fry in deep fat; drain on brown paper. Serve.
5. Orange, Peach, and Pear Fritters – Are all made in the same way as Banana Fritters.
6. Cumquat Fritters – Wash cumquats; cut in halves; let stand in Fritter Batter one hour; fry in deep fat; drain on brown paper.

Title

Lowney’s Cook Book

Author

Maria Willet Howard

Ingredients

• 1 cup corn (approx. 175g)
• 1 cup flour (approx. 120g)
• 2 teaspoons salt
• few grains cayenne
• 1 egg
• ½ cup milk (120ml)
• 1 tablespoon olive oil

Method

1. Beat egg; add remaining ingredients.
2. Drop by spoonfuls into deep fat.
3. Fry six to eight minutes.
4. Drain and serve hot.
5. Canned corn may be used if fresh corn is not available.

Title

Lowney’s Cook Book

Author

Maria Willet Howard

Ingredients

• 3 cups tomatoes (approx. 600g)
• bit of bay leaf
• 4 tablespoons butter (56g)
• 4 cloves
• 3 tablespoons chopped onion
• 2 tablespoons chopped red pepper
• ½ cup cornstarch (approx. 60g)
• 1 egg
• 1 teaspoon salt

Method

1. Melt butter; add onion and pepper, cook five minutes, add cornstarch, tomatoes, cloves, bay leaf and salt.
2. Cook until thick.
3. Strain.
4. Add beaten egg.
5. Cool in buttered tin.
6. Cut in any shape desired.
7. Dip in crumbs, egg and crumbs, and fry in deep fat.

Title

Lowney’s Cook Book

Author

Maria Willet Howard