Ingredients
1 cup all-purpose flour
1 tsp baking powder
1 egg
1 cup beer
1/4 cup vegetable oil
Directions
Mix flour and baking powder. Add remaining ingredients and beat until
smooth. To fry: Dip chunks of food into batter. Fry in 3-4 inches of
fat at 375 degrees until golden brown. Drain on paper toweling.
Sprinkle fruit fritters with confectioners sugar or top with a sweet
sauce.
Servings: 1 servings
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Categories: Beer; Bread; Breads
The History of Recipes
Written cooking instructions as a concept can be tracked far back into antiquity, in truth as far as the ancient Egyptians, and maybe further still. In practice though, mostly, these old cookbooks were just simple pictorial recipes for food preparation.
In an interesting twist, the most ancient recipe discovered, according to Professor Solomon Katz, are some tablets in the Sumerian language which show the baking of bread which is then used to make a drink, quite possibly a form of beer as it is recorded as having made those who drank it feel exhilarated. Moving our culinary historical trip onwards, we find two interesting cookery books which date from the 14th Century : a recipe book titled `Forme of Cury`, and another, similary named `Curye on Inglish`. Despite their titles, these are not about the indian food that we all know today, but instead recipes for the types of meals on the tables of the rich people of those days. Later on, in the 15th century, people returning from the crusades brought back many new spices and herbs from the holy land, including coriander, parsley, basil and rosemary. The introduction of these new tastes prompted an increase in recipe manuscripts, the majority of which are kept safe in private collections. Over the succeeding few centuries, the powerful and wealthy houses tried to lay on the most exotic meals, and consequentially the best cooks and their collection of recipes were highly sought after. However, it wasn`t until the nineteenth century that fine cookery and cookery books became popular. The Famous Mrs Isabella Beeton in the UK, and the equally famous Fannie Farmer in the USA, devoted much of their lives to assembling, trying out, and writing down recipes that were common in the better off homes of the day. When we get to the 20th century, cook books are increasing in popularity mostly due to better eduction, people having more spare time and being a little richer. The TV revolution gave us celebrity chefs and the recipe books that accompanied them. And that neatly brings us to the present day and the internet revolution, allowing us all to access massive numbers of recipes just like those on sites such as this. |
We hope you enjoy this Beer Batter For Fritters recipe.
