This section is from the book "Cooking For Profit", by Jessup Whitehead. Also available from Amazon: Cooking for Profit.
Price served as a pudding dish 10c 4 cups flour - 1 pound.
1 large teaspoon baking powder.
2 cups water slightly warm.
3 tablespoons melted lard,
1 of molasses.
Pinch of salt.
Lard to fry.
Sift the flour into a pan and throw in the powder, make a hollow in middle, put in all the rest - the water not quite cold enough to set the shortening - and stir up thoroughly into a soft fritter dough. It may need another basting spoon of water. Beat well. Fry large spoonfuls in hot lard or good fat from the meat pans. Serve 2 in a dish with 1/4 cup of sauce. Makes 24 fritters or according to size and how light the dough is made by beating.
Cost of material - flour 3, powder 1, eggs 5, shortening 1, molasses 1, lard consumed or damaged in frying 8; 19c for 24 fritters - sauce 15 - 34 cents for 12 dishes, 3c dish.
 
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