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Frittors of Spinage - The good Huswifes Handmaide for the Kitchin, 1594,
John Partridge
Take a good deal of Spinnage, and wash it cleane, and boyle it in faire
water, and when it is boyled, put it in a Collender, and let it coole.
Then wring all the water out of it as neere as ye can, lay it upon a board, and chop it with the back of a chopping knife verie smal, and put it in a
platter, and put to it four whites of egs, and two yolks, and the
crums of a halfe a manchet grated, and a little Synamon & Ginger, and styre them well together with a spoon and take a frying pan and a dish of sweete [fresh] Butter in it, when it is molten put handsomely in your pan halfe a spoonfull of your stuffe, and so bestowe the rest after, fry then on a soft fyre and turn them when the time is, lay them in a platter and cast sugar on them.