Pâte à Frire

Name: Pâte à Frire (Yeast French-frying Batter)
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: 1 tablespoon sugar; 2 egg yolks; 2 egg whites, beaten stiff; Oil for French-frying; ½ cup warm milk; 1 cup flour; 1 (⅗-ounce) cake compressed yeast; 2 tablespoons warm water; ½ teaspoon salt

Yeast French-frying Batter

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Hows and Whys of French Cooking

By Alma Lach

Published 1974

About

Ingredients

1 cup flour
1 (⅗-ounce) cake compressed yeast
2</

Dessert
Vegetarian

Method

Put flour into mixer bowl. Make a hole in the middle. Put crumbled yeast into the hole. Add water. Stir yeast and water together to dissolve yeast. Don’t worry if some flour mixes into it. When yeast is dissolved, add salt, sugar, and yolks. Beat together in mixer on low speed while adding milk. Mixture should be like a thick custard. Beat for about 5 minutes.