The royal baker and pastry cook : $b A manual of practical cookery

Baking Powder and enough more flour to make thick drop batter. Fry in deep kettle of smoking hot fat, and serve with plenty of mashed berries. =Meat Fritters.=—Cut cold cooked meat in slices or fingers and dip in batter; or chop and stir into the batter, seasoned with salt, pepper, and herbs or chopped onion, as desired. Fry as directed. =Rice Fritters.=—1 cup rice, 1 pint milk, 3 eggs, 1 tablespoon sugar, 2 tablespoons butter. Boil rice in milk until soft and all the milk is absorbed, then remove, add yolks of eggs, sugar, and butter; when cold add whites, whipped to dry froth; drop in spoonfuls in plenty of lard, made hot for the purpose; fry them deep buff color. Serve with cream, wine or lemon sauce. =Hominy Fritters.=—To 1 pint hot boiled hominy add 2 beaten eggs, ½ teaspoon salt, dash of pepper, ½ cup milk. When cool add flour to make a thin drop batter, and 1 teaspoon Royal Baking Powder. Beat and drop in hot fat by small spoonfuls. =Waffles.=—Sift together 1 quart flour, ⅓ teaspoon salt, 1 teaspoon sugar, 2 teaspoons Royal Baking Powder. Rub in ⅓ cup butter. Add 3 eggs, whites and yolks beaten separately, and sufficient milk to make a thin batter. Cook in hot greased waffle-irons. =Waffles, 2.=—1 quart milk, 2 teaspoons Royal Baking Powder mixed with 3 cups flour, 1 cup melted butter, ½ teaspoon salt, whites and yolks 6 eggs, more flour to make thin batter. Bake at once. =German Waffles.=—1 quart flour, ½ teaspoon salt, 3 tablespoons sugar, 2 large teaspoons Royal Baking Powder, 2 tablespoons lard, rind of 1 lemon, grated, 1 teaspoon extract cinnamon, 4 eggs, and 1 pint thin cream. Sift together flour, sugar, salt, and powder; rub in lard cold; add beaten eggs, lemon rind, extract, and milk. Mix into smooth, rather thick batter. Bake in hot waffle-iron, serve with sugar flavored with extract of lemon. =Soft Waffles.=—1 quart flour, ½ teaspoon salt, 1 teaspoon sugar, 2 teaspoons Royal Baking Powder, 1 large tablespoon butter, 2 eggs, 1½ pints milk. Sift together flour, salt,