Old Fashion Christmas Sweet Fritters

10 servings
Ingredients

2 cups water
1 lb. flour
2 whole eggs
1 egg yolk
1/2 tsp salt
2 tbsp anisette
9 oz. lard
9 oz. piloncillo -raw sugar


Boil one tablespoon anisette in a cup of water and leave to cool. Mix and
sift the flour, baking powder and salt. Mix in the eggs, the yolk and the
anisette in water, as required, and knead until the dough stiffens. Form
into small balls and roll out on a floured board until very thin. Continue
flattening by hand on a napkin and place on a floured table. Heat the lard
..Fry one by one in the lard.

Heat the piloncillo in one cup of water with the remaining tablespoon of
anisette. This mixture will thicken to a light syrup. remove from heat and
strain.

Serve the fritters, broken into pieces, in bowls and pour the syrup over
them.




--
William Barfieldsr