This section is from the book "The Cook County Cook Book", by The Associated College Women Workers. See also: Larousse Gastronomique.
-1/4 cup butter (scant), 1/2 cup boiling water, 1/2 cup flour, 2 eggs; mix as cream puffs, drop by spoonfuls and fry in deep fat. Drain, fill with preserves or cream filling and sprinkle with powdered sugar. - Mrs. C. F. Adams, Franklin, 111.
Mix 4 cups of flaked rice, I cup of flour, 2 level teaspoons of baking powder, 1/2 teaspoon of salt, 1/4 teaspoon of paprika, 1 egg, 1 cup of milk. Drop by spoonfuls into hot fat, vegtable oil or ko-nut, and fry 5 minutes. - Mrs. E. D. Kelley, Winnetka, 111.
Mix together 2 cups rice, 2 teaspoons baking powder, 2 eggs, a little salt and milk enough to make a stiff batter. Drop into boiling fat of any kind desired and fry a light brown, and serve with any kind of syrup, sugar or cream. - Mabel Sturtevant, 105 S. Dearborn Ave., Chicago, 111.
Beat 1 egg until light, add to it 1/2 pt. of milk, then 1/2 teaspoon of salt and 1/2 cup of flour; give a thorough and continuous beating for 5 minutes. Have ready a pan of boiling fat; stir the snow lightly into the batter; drop by spoonfuls into the boiling fat, and fry until a nice brown. - Mrs. Conk-lin, 914 N. 5th Ave., Maywood, 111.
Pare the crust from a stale loaf, cut in slices an inch thick. Beat up the yolks of 3 eggs with a pt. of sweet milk, in which put a teaspoon of salt. Have your skillet hot and put in a 1/2 tablespoon of lard. Dip slices in milk and fry a nice brown. - Mrs. Mary Carpenter, Des Plaines, 111.
These fritters are of two classes: (1) A thick batter in which baking powder is used and the fruit is added in small pieces or the crushed pulp only. (2) Thin batter made without baking powder and the fruit put in in large pieces. To make the batter. - 1 cup flour, 2 teaspoons baking powder, 1/4 teaspoon salt, 1/2 tablespoon powdered sugar, according to the acidity of the fruit used, 1/4 cup milk or water, 1 egg, beaten, 1 tablespoon melted butter, lemon juice if bananas are used. Mix and sift dry material, add liquid, add the fruit, if bananas, force through a sieve. Fold in the whites of egg last. Drop by spoonfuls in hot fat and cook until browned. - Mabel Sturtevant, 105 S. Dearborn St., Chicago, 111.
Place 3 tablespoons of sifted flour in a bowl; add 1/4 teaspoon of baking powder, 1 tablespoon of stale macaroon crumbs, a pinch of salt, the yolk of an egg and a dessertspoon of melted butter. Mix thoroughly and add gradually 3/4 cup of lukewarm water; beat to a smooth cream, add the whites of 2 eggs, beaten stiff, and 1 teaspoon of vanilla. Drop a spoonful of the batter in a saucepan half full of boiling fat. Take out quickly. Drain carefully on clean, greased paper and sprinkle with sugar. - Mrs. C. J. Jeffries, Winnetka, 111.
 
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