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Frangipane
Fritters.—Make a Frangipane cream by mixing eggs
with a little cold potato, butter, sugar, and powdered
ratafias, the proportion being a quarter of a pound of
butter, four eggs, six ounces of sugar, one cold floury
potato, and a quarter of a pound of ratafias. Bake or steam
this until it is set, and proceed as in custard
fritters. Many persons add the flavouring of a little
rum.
Peach Fritters.—These
are made exactly similar to apricot fritters, bearing in
mind that if they are made from tinned peaches only the firm
pieces, and not pulpy ones, must be used for the purpose.
Proceed exactly as directed for apricot
fritters.
If any liqueur is used, noyeau is best
adapted for the purpose.
Potato Fritters.—Mix
up some floury potato with a quarter of a pound of butter, a
well-beaten-up egg, and three ounces of sugar, some of which
has been rubbed on the outside of a lemon. The addition of a
little cream is a great improvement. Roll the mixture into
small balls and flour them; they are then fried just as they
are, without being dipped into batter.
Pine-apple
Fritters.—These can be made from fresh pine-apples
or tinned. They should be cut into slices like apple
fritters if the pine-apple is small, but if the pine-apple
is large they can be cut into strips three inches long and
one wide and half an inch thick. These must be dipped in
powdered sugar, then into batter, and finished as directed
for apple
fritters.
If any liqueur is used, maraschino is best
adapted to the purpose.
Orange
Fritters.—Only first-class oranges are adapted for
this purpose. Thick-skinned and woolly oranges are no use.
Peel a thin-skinned ripe orange, divide each orange into
about six pieces, soak these in a syrup flavoured with sugar
rubbed on the outside of an orange, and if liqueur is used
make the syrup with brandy. After they have soaked some
time, remove any pips, dip each piece into hatter, and
proceed as directed for apple
fritters.
Cream Fritters.—Rub
some lumps of sugar on the outside of an orange, pound them,
and mix with a little cream; take some small pieces of stale
white cake, such as Madeira cake or what the French call
brioche. Soak these pieces of stale cake, which must be cut
small and thin, or they will break, in the orange-flavoured
cream, dry each piece in some finely-powdered sugar, dip it
into batter, and proceed as directed for making apple
fritters.
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