Main Ingredients:

See below ingredients and instructions of the recipe

Cooking Preparation of the Recipe:

3/4 c Flour 2 ea To 3 apples
4 ea Eggs; beaten Confectioner's sugar; for
1 pn Pepper -garnish
1/8 ts Saffron

"Sift the flour and mix with the beaten eggs to make a smooth
batter. Add the pepper and saffron.
"Peel, core, and slice the apples, put them into the batter and
leave for 1 hour. This will allow the saffron to colour and flavour
the batter. Drop by large spoonfuls into deep fat heated to 375f and
fry for 3 to 4 minutes; the fritters will rise to the surface when
cooked and should be a golden brown. Drain, sprinkle with con-
fectioner's sugar and serve hot."

From _Ancient Cookery_, 1381 "For to make fritters: Nym flour and
eyerin and grind pepper and saffron and make thereto a batter pare
apples and cut them to broad pieces and cast them therein and fry
them in the batter with fresh grease and serve it forth."

_Seven Centuries of English Cooking_. Compiled and updated by Maxime
de la Falaise. Grove Press, London, 1992. Typos by Jeff Pruett.
Submitted By JEFF PRUETT On 04-24-95

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