Simply sweet apple fritters

Serve these apple fritters dusted in sugar or soaked in syrup, honey, hot jam … let us know how you served them!

How ever you choose to serve your apple fritters, let’s all make a pact never to forget this wonderfully simple recipe.

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ingredients for apple fritters

• 100 grams (4 oz) flour
• pinch of salt
• 1 large egg, separated
• 150 ml (1/4 pint) milk
• 1 tablespoon vegetable oil

1. Sieve the flour and salt together into a mixing bowl
2. Make a well and add the egg yolk and enough milk to make a thick batter
3. Beat until smooth and add the remaing milk and oil
4. Set aside for 30 minutes
5. When you are ready to use the batter, whisk the egg white into stiff peaks and fold into the batter

• Oil for deep frying
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon, put extra for dusting
• Fritter batter
• 4 large apples, peeled, cored and slied into 6mm (1/4 inch) rings
• caster sugar (fine white sugar) for dusting

1. Heat the oil to 190C /375F.
2. Add the cinnamon to the batter and dip in the apple rings.
3. Shake off excess batter and carefully place into the hot oil.
4. Turn them over as they cook.
5. When golden, remove, drain on kitchen paper and dust with cinnamon sugar and drizzle with maple syrup or honey.