Northern spy apple fritters
15 Servings
Ingredients
| Quantity | Ingredient | |
|---|---|---|
| ¾ | cup | Yellow cornmeal |
| ½ | cup | All-purpose flour |
| 2 | tablespoons | Baking powder |
| 6 | tablespoons | Sugar |
| 1 | pinch | Of salt |
| 1 | Egg | |
| ½ | cup | Milk |
| 1½ | cup | Vegetable oil for frying |
| 1 | Northern Spy apple, peeled, cored and chopped | |
| 2 | tablespoons | Vegetable oil |
| Confectioner's sugar for garnish | ||
Directions
Combine all dry ingredients (except for confectioners sugar). Add liquid ingredients (except for 1½ cups of oil) one at a time, stirring between additions. Mix in apple. Let batter sit for 10 minutes. In a 1-quart saucepan over medium high-heat, heat the oil until it crackles, not quite to the smoking point. Take precautionary measures for using hot oil! Drop batter into the oil 1 tbls. at a time (get close so the oil doesn't splash). Fry only 2 or 3 fritters at a time. Don't crowd the pan. Flip the fritters over and remove onto a paper towel when golden brown. Sprinkle with confectioners sugar and serve.
Makes 15 to 18 fritters.
From the cookbook, "Apples" by Robert Berkley