Cottage Cheese Fritters
Smartard
4 eggs
230ml (8 floz) Oil for frying
50g (2oz) Cottage cheese
4 tsp Double cream
Brown sugar to taste
Pass the cottage cheese through a sieve into a bowl to produce a smooth paste.
Add eggs and cream to the bowl, and whisk together until smooth.
Heat oil in a frying pan and fry the mixture a small amount at a time, spreading it out as it is poured into the pan.
Allow the fritters to cook until they start to brown around the edges.
Carefully remove from the oil and drain on paper towels.
Arrange on a serving dish and sprinkle with brown sugar.
Serves four to six.
To mak smartard tak wetted cruddes er they bee pressed and put them in a clothe and grinde them well to pured flour and temper hem with eggs and cowe creme and mak ther of a good batere that it be rynynge then tak whit grece in a pan and let it be hete and tak out the batter with a saucer and let it ryn into the grece and draw your hand bakward that it may ryn abrod then fry it welle and whit and somwhat craking and serue it furthe in dishes with sugur ther on.
from A Noble Boke off Cookry
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