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11. Apple Fritters No. 1. Sift 2 cups of flour with 1 teaspoonful of baking
powder, then add 1/2 teaspoonful of salt. Beat the yolks of 2 eggs with 1
teaspoonful of sugar and 1 cupful of sweet milk. Stir this into the flour to
make a smooth batter, then add the beaten whites of the eggs. Then stir in 3
chapped apples and fry in hot fat. Serve with maple syrup.
12. Apple Fritters No. 2. Make a batter in proportion of 1 cupful of sweet milk
to 2 cups of flour, 1 heaping teaspoonful of baking powder, 2 eggs, 1
tablespoonful of sugar, and a little salt. Have the milk luke-warm, slowly add
to the beaten yolks and sugar, then the flour and the whites of the eggs; stir
all together, and throw in some slices of good sour apples, covering the apple
slices well with the batter; drop into the hot lard with a spoon, and fry to a
golden brown. Serve with Maple sugar or with syrup made of sugar.
13. French Pan-Cakes. Sift together 1/2 cupful of flour and 1 teaspoonful of
baking powder and stir to a batter with 1 cupful of milk, 1 teaspoonful of
sugar, 3 eggs, the whites beaten separately and added last, and 1 teaspoonful of
melted butter. Put a piece of butter into a frying-pan, pour in enough of the
batter to cover the surface. When brown on. both sides spread with jelly, roll,
and sift powdered sugar over the top.
14. Buckwheat Griddle Cakes. 2 cupfuls of buck wheat flour, 1/2 cupful of wheat
flour, 2 teaspoonfuls of baking powder, 1 teaspoonful of salt, and make into a
batter with 1 pint of sweet milk. Bake brown on both sides on a well greased
griddle. Beat the batter well before baking.
15. Buckwheat Cakes. Sift together 1 quart of buckwheat flour and a teacupful of
corn meal. In cool weather make up a moderately thin batter with luke warm sweet
milk; salt to taste. In warm weather it is best to use water as the milk would
sour; add half a tumblerful of good yeast; make it up in a jar (covering
closely), and let it raise over night. The next morning beat in three eggs; let
it set 15 or 20 minutes; just before frying stir in a teaspoonful of soda, first
sprinkling: it over the batter. Dip out with a ladle, putting the
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