Nothing so much as a brilliant sunny evening with friends compels me to make fritters. It's nuts really, what then happens is they are outside drinking beer at sunset and I am inside peering into a pan of boiling oil. But I love fried food. Oh, foraA built in deep fat fryer! Well, a girl can dream.
2 handfuls wild garlic flowers (impatient, I used buds as ours haven't come out yet, but they will be prettier then)
For the batter:
4 tbs plain flour
1 egg
lager
Beat the egg briefly with a whisk, then incorporate it into the flour, slowly pouring in cold beer to loosen it up as you go. Stop when you have reached the consistency of double cream. Meanwhile, heat a saucepan with oil not
deeper than halfway (I have a large jar of frying oil which I strain and decant into, using it again and again). Drop a little of the batter in, when it quickly turns golden, you are ready to cook. Turn the flowers in the batter and drop, in batches into the pan of oil. When they have turned golden, fish out with a slotted spoon and put onto a plate lined with kitchen roll. When you have finished all the batches, sprinkle with sea salt and eat whilst hot, preferably with a very cold beer.
2 handfuls wild garlic flowers (impatient, I used buds as ours haven't come out yet, but they will be prettier then)
For the batter:
4 tbs plain flour
1 egg
lager
Beat the egg briefly with a whisk, then incorporate it into the flour, slowly pouring in cold beer to loosen it up as you go. Stop when you have reached the consistency of double cream. Meanwhile, heat a saucepan with oil not
deeper than halfway (I have a large jar of frying oil which I strain and decant into, using it again and again). Drop a little of the batter in, when it quickly turns golden, you are ready to cook. Turn the flowers in the batter and drop, in batches into the pan of oil. When they have turned golden, fish out with a slotted spoon and put onto a plate lined with kitchen roll. When you have finished all the batches, sprinkle with sea salt and eat whilst hot, preferably with a very cold beer.
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