Lowney’s – Batter for Fruit Fritters

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