Common Sense in the Household: A Manual of Practical Housewifery

by Marion Harland

Bread Fritters.

• 1 quart milk—boiling-hot.
• 2 cups fine bread-crumbs (aërated bread is best).
• 3 eggs.
• 1 teaspoonful nutmeg.
• 1 tablespoonful butter—melted.
• 1 saltspoonful salt, and the same of soda, dissolved in hot water.

Soak the bread in the boiling milk ten minutes, in a covered bowl. Beat to a smooth paste; add the whipped yolks, the butter, salt, soda, and finally the whites, whipped stiff.