Yield: 15 Servings
Measure | Ingredient |
---|---|
¾ cup | Yellow cornmeal |
½ cup | All-purpose flour |
2 tablespoons | Baking powder |
6 tablespoons | Sugar |
1 pinch | Of salt |
1 \N | Egg |
½ cup | Milk |
1½ cup | Vegetable oil for frying |
1 \N | Northern Spy apple, peeled, cored and chopped |
2 tablespoons | Vegetable oil |
\N \N | Confectioner's sugar for garnish |
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