Italian Fritters Recipe

Ingredients

* 1 egg
* 1 cup milk
* Grated rind 1 lemon
* 2 tablespoons vegetable shortening
* 5 slices stale cake
* ½ teaspoon powdered cinnamon
* Sugar and few grains salt

Instructions

1. Cake should be about a 1/4 of an inch thick, not less.
2. Cut out into oval or round shapes with cutter.
3. Beat egg, mix with milk, lemon rind, salt, and about 1 teaspoon sugar.
4. Lay slices of cake in this custard until they are soft, but not crumbly; time will depend upon how stale cake is.
5. Heat 1/2 vegetable shortening in frying pan, lift few pieces of cake up carefully and lay them in hot vegetable shortening.
6. Brown 1 side, then turn them over and brown other side also.
7. Add some pieces of vegetable shortening as required.
8. Mix cinnamon with 2 teaspoons sugar and sprinkle some of these over each fritter.
9. Serve with hard sauce.