What is your best batter recipe?

[Ddywalgi]

Hi All,

I have made batter for fish in the past and have tried different things and added a bit of brown ale or stout to the mix. But I was told by the chippie in Scarborough that it is cooking it in Beef Dripping that does it.
Reminds me - I have a friend who is a vegetarian and only ate chips from the chippie - they went ballistic when they found out they had been eating chips cooked in beef dripping .. a cautionary tale for any vegetarians out there.

So who has the best recipe for a really good batter for a bit of cod?

Optimistic I'll catch one this year.

[fozally]

Just straight forward cider and plain flour mixed so it it a thick batter. Coat the fish in flour first and then batter. Nice and crispy.

[nuke]

Hi All,

I have made batter for fish in the past and have tried different things and added a bit of brown ale or stout to the mix. But I was told by the chippie in Scarborough that it is cooking it in Beef Dripping that does it.
Reminds me - I have a friend who is a vegetarian and only ate chips from the chippie - they went ballistic when they found out they had been eating chips cooked in beef dripping .. a cautionary tale for any vegetarians out there.

So who has the best recipe for a really good batter for a bit of cod?

Optimistic I'll catch one this year.

use fizzy water to mix ya batter

[codseeker]

decided to try make batter for the first time and not a bad result at all i opened a can of larger whilst waiting for the deep fat fryer to heat up i tripped and spilt some in the batter mix and they came out like this

[lossafish]

What is your best batter recipe?

Only hit her hard enough to stun her

[<(Andy2009)>]

Cant beat a good beer batter, my mam tends to use Brown Ale to make it, and it tastes devine. Mind you, any brew will do as longs as you like it and a word of warning...

DONT USE SPIRITS IN YA BATTER!!! My uncle found this out the hard way... Nearly blew his kitchen up when he put the fillits into the fryer!!!

[stewvie]

batter

Farm house chip shop batter,lovely,lol

[<(Andy2009)>]

Farm house chip shop batter,lovely,lol

With a drop of ale!!

[Charlton]

half plain flour, half cornflour, mixed with cold water, colder the better, not to thick a mix.

[loopylou]

use icy cold fizzy water.

[mickbrennan]

cant beat a good beer batter, my mam tends to use brown ale to make it, and it tastes devine. Mind you, any brew will do as longs as you like it and a word of warning...

Dont use spirits in ya batter!!! my uncle found this out the hard way... Nearly blew his kitchen up when he put the fillits into the fryer!!!:d:d

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[Ddywalgi]

Thanks All Brilliant,

I agree with Andy 2009 you can't beat a good batter. The number of times I have had a good fillet of fish spoiled in a restaurant or chip shop because of poor batter is too many.

Brilliant photos codseeker - Really appetising fillets, my mouth is watering at the sight of them and strangely I can smell vinegar. Good effort - I hope mine turn out to look half as delicious.

Thanks Fozally - I have never tried cider is it fizzy or scrumpy. A few say fizzy water too and it has to be cold.

Thank you all, We put a fair bit of effort in catching the fish and I can't think of anything better than cooking certain fish in a tasty batter. Thanks for the tips and recipes.

[Topfly]

half plain flour, half cornflour, mixed with cold water, colder the better, not to thick a mix.

Almost a tempura Alan, now ya getting posh.

[Ddywalgi]

Almost a tempura Alan, now ya getting posh

Thank you Charlton, Cornflour is under-rated.
I use it for gravy and chinese cooking mostly.

I will now try it in Batter.

Not posh - good sense.

A light crispy batter - I can see the logic -

but can I produce the results?

[nodrog]

batter

half flour half cornflour mix with lager. the lager forms a protective batter and your fish steams inside instead of being greasy. by the way, a few drops of vinigar in your batter mix will give you a soft batter coating instead of a hard crispy one.