A Fraise.
Cut streaked bacon in thin slices an inch long: make a batter of a pint of milk, three eggs, and a large spoonful of flour; add salt and pepper: put a piece of fresh dripping in the pan, and, when hot, pour half the batter, and on it strew the bacon, then the remainder of the batter. Let it do gently; and be careful, in turning, that the bacon do not come to the pan.
Fritters.
Make them of any of the batters directed for pancakes by dropping a small quantity into the pan. Or make the plainer sort, and put pared apple, sliced and cored, into the batter, and fry some of it with each slice. Currants, or sliced lemon as thin as paper, make an agreeable change.
Spanish Fritters.
Cut the crumb of a French roll into lengths, as thick as your finger, in what shape you will. Soak in some cream, nutmeg, sugar, pounded cinnamon, and an egg. When well soaked, fry of a nice brown, and serve with butter, wine, and sugar sauce.
Potatoe Fritters.
Boil two large potatoes, and scrape them fine: beat four yelks and three whites of eggs, and add to the above, with one large spoonful of cream, another of sweet wine, a squeeze of lemon, and a little nutmeg. Beat this batter half an hour at least. It will be extremely light. Put a good quantity of fine lard in a stewpan, and drop a spoonful of the batter at a time into it: fry them; and serve as a sauce, a glass of white wine, the juice of a lemon, one dessert spoonful of peachleaf, or almond water, and some white sugar warmed together: not to be served in the dish.
Cheesecakes.
Strain the whey from the curd of two quarts of milk. When rather dry, crumble it through a coarse sieve, and mix with six ounces of fresh butter, one ounce of pounded blanched almonds, a little orange flower water, half a glass of raisin wine, a grated biscuit, four ounces of currants, some nutmeg, and cinnamon, in fine powder, and beat all the above with three eggs, and half a pint of cream, till quite light; then fill the pattypans three parts full.