Blackberry Fritters
Ingredients
Directions
Mix blackberries into the frying batter in a bowl.
Drop by tablespoons into hot lard.
Fry until golden brown and serve with sauce.
Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.
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What each ingredient does
- Blackberries
- Provide fruit flavour and juicy pockets of sweetness inside the batter.
- Frying batter
- Forms the crisp, golden coating that holds the fritters together while frying.
- Lard
- Conducts heat around the fritters and browns the batter as it fries.
The step that matters
Drop by tablespoons into hot lard. If the lard is not hot enough, the batter absorbs fat and turns greasy instead of crisping. Hot fat sets the outside quickly, so the fritters hold their shape and brown evenly.
“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.
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