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APPLE FRITTERS
Ingredients:
1-1/4 cup ale or beer
1 Tbs. dry yeast
1 cup flour
optional: 1 egg or 2 egg yolks
3 or 4 apples (e.g. Macintosh)
1/2 tsp. salt
oil or shortening for frying
Confectioners' sugar

 Directions:

Heat the beer to lukewarm.
Put the yeast in a medium sized bowl and add 1/4 cup of the beer; stir and let sit about 10 minutes.
Mix in the flour, egg yolks or egg if desired, salt, and remaining beer.
Beat the mixture and then cover the bowl.
Leave in a warm place for about an hour. It should at least double in bulk.

Peel the apples, core them and cut into wedges or rings.
Put the apple slices in the batter and stir to coat them.
Fry quickly in oil or deep fat.
Sprinkle with sugar and serve.

The Medieval Version:

Fretoure recipe from harleian ms 279 (2 15th century cookery books)

liiij Fretoure - Take whete flour, Ale zest, Safroun,& Salt, & bete all to-gederye as {th}ikke as {th}ou schuldyst make o{th}er bature in fleysshe tyme; & {th}an take fayre Applys & kut hem in ma'ner of Fretourys, & wete hem in {th}e bature up on downne, & frye hem in fayre Oyle, & caste hem in a dyssche, & caste Sugre {th}er-on, & serue forth.



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English Raspberry Squares
Serve these at your next brunch. Makes about 18

Ingredients:
1 cup Brown sugar
1 1/4 cup Flour
1 cup Oats
1/4 teaspoon Salt
6 ounces Butter
3/4 cup Raspberry jam
 Mix together the sugar, flour, oats, salt and butter until a meal-like consistency forms.
Press 1/2 of the mixture into a 6" X 9" casserole dish or baking pan.
Add a layer of the jam.
Top with the remaining mixture and press into a firm layer.
Bake at 325 for 40 minutes. Allow to cool and cut into squares.




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