Fruit Fritters: I Want to Try These

Originally published in Miss Beecher’s domestic receiptbook: designed as a supplement to her Treatise on domestic economy.

This recipe is featured in the chapter John and Bryony's Christmas Eve Wedding from the official BryonySeries cookbook, Memories in the Kitchen: Bites and Nibbles from "Bryony."

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Fruit Fritters

1 pint milk

1½ pints flour

2 teaspoons salt

6 eggs

A pint of cream (or milk with a little butter melted in it)

Butter

Fruit (can be blackberries, raspberries, currants, gooseberries or sliced apples or peaches)

Sweet lard

Sugar

Wine, nutmeg, or grated lemon peel

 

Mix eggs and cream with the fruit. Mold into small cakes and fry in lard. Eat with a sauce of butter beat with sugar and flavored with wine, nutmeg, or grated lemon peel.