APPLE FRITTERS RECIPE

4 Eggs
four spoonfuls of fine flour
1/4 pound of sugar
Milk, Nutmeg and Salt as necessary

Take four eggs and beat them very well, put to them four spoonfuls of
fine flour, a little milk, about a quarter of a pound of sugar, a
little nutmeg and salt, so beat them very well together; you must not
make it very thin, if you do it will not stick to the apple; take a
middling apple and pare it, cut out the core, and cut the rest in round
slices about the thickness of a shilling; (you may take out the core
after you have cut it with your thimble) have ready a little lard in a
stew-pan, or any other deep pan; then take your apple every slice
single, and dip it into your bladder, let your lard be very hot, so
drop them in; you must keep them turning whilst enough, and mind that
they be not over brown; as you take them out lay them on a pewter dish
before the fire whilst you have done; have a little white wine, butter
and sugar for the sauce; grate over them a little loaf sugar, and serve
them up.

APPLE FRITTERS -3.

Make a batter in the proportion of one cup sweet milk to two cups flour, a heaping teaspoonful of baking powder, two eggs beaten separately, one tablespoonful of sugar and a salt spoon of salt; heat the milk a little more than milk-warm, add it slowly to the beaten yolks and sugar; then add flour and whites of the eggs; stir all together and throw in thin slices of good sour apples, dipping the batter up over them; drop into boiling hot lard in large spoonfuls with pieces of apple in each, and fry to a light brown. Serve with maple syrup, or nice syrup made with clarified sugar.

APPLE JELLY -1.

Take many apples as may be required. 1 pint of water to each 1 lb. of apples. Wash and cut up the apples, and boil them in the water until tender; then pour them into a jelly bag and let drain well; take 1 lb. of loaf sugar to each pint of juice, and the juice of 1 lemon to each quart of liquid. Boil the liquid, skimming carefully, until the jelly sets when cold if a drop is tried on a plate. It may take from 2 hours to 3 hours in boiling.

APPLE JELLY -2.

Select apples that are rather tart and highly flavored; slice them without paring; place in a porcelain preserving kettle, cover with water, and let them cook slowly until the apples look red. Pour into a colander, drain off the juice, and let this run through a jelly-bag; return to the kettle, which must be carefully washed, and boil half an hour; measure it and allow to every pint of juice a pound of sugar and half the juice of a lemon; boil quickly for ten minutes. The juice of apples boiled in shallow vessels, without a particle of sugar, makes the most sparkling, delicious jelly imaginable. Red apples will give jelly the color and clearness of claret, while that from light fruit is like amber. Take the cider just as it is made, not allowing it to ferment at all, and, if possible; boil it in a pan, flat, very large and shallow.