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Mix Cheeses, flour, egg and 1/4 cup sugar together well. Heat lard or oil and drop batter by spoonfuls* into hot fat, fry until lightly browned. Drain and sprinkle with sugar if desired. Makes about 24 one inch fritters. *A small spring loaded scoop will help keep your fritters equal in size and round. Lavender Fritters
Mix Cheeses, flour, egg lavender and 1/4 cup sugar together well. Thin with a tablespoon of milk if needed. Heat lard and drop by spoonfuls into hot fat, fry until lightly browned. Drain and sprinkle with sugar if desired. Makes about 24 one inch fritters. The original of this recipe called for elder flowers, which are sometimes available from brewing supply stores. If you can find them give them a try. We have substituted lavender as it is more readily available. Remember to be careful using flowers for culinary purposes. Always use either flowers grown commercially to be eaten or home grown flowers raised without pesticides or other chemicals, especially sprayed on the flowers themselves but also those that might have been carried into the plant from the roots or leaves.\ About the Source: The recipes on this page and the facing page are two variations from De arte coquinaria by Martino of Como dating from the later half of the fifteenth century. We worked from English translations as presented in The Art of Cooking, the First Modern Cookery Book, as translated by Jeremy Parzen and published by the University of California Press in 2005. Elderfower Fritters Take some good fresh cheese and a little aged cheese, and crush well, adding a bit of sifted flour to them and the necessary amount of egg whites; likewise a little milk and some sugar; and grind all these things well together, remove from mortar, and add a sufficient amount of elderflowers at you own discretion; they should not be crushed or crumbled, so as not to make the mixture too clear, that is too liquid, so that you can form round fritters using your hands, or in whatever shape you like, and they fry them in good rendered lard or butter, or in good oil; and serve very hot. Fritters made with egg whites, sifted flour and Fresh Cheese Follow the directions and method described in the preceding recipe, but add neither milk nor elder flowers to these fritters. |
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