Cod Batter

[fiskies]

Can anyone help me with a recipe for batter, I've got eggs, flour and milk and have two fillets from a cod I caught this morning, I want to try and batter it for tea tonight.

[Jamie Donnelly]

one cup of self raising flour and one of water,

thats all, the water makes the batter crisp.

Jamie

[Cascars]

Some supermarkets ( and most cash and carry's) sell chip shop batter mix. Make sure that you coat the fish well with flour first or all the batter will come off as soon as it hits the fat.

[bigfish]

Forget water...use BEER!

[richierobins]

...or you could try Hugh Fearnley–Whittingstall's recipe:-

http://www.rivercottage.net/Seasonal...id=524&cid=138

[evertontoffe]

saw a recipe on rex hunt that little bloke in the braces,
he used flat beer added to his mix we used stella,
then after the beer is added to the batter add a table spoon of custard
powder yes wierd but true.
then place batter on top of ice in a dish covered over with a tea towel
for an hour or so ontill very cold probly just put in fridge we thought
but we followed it as he said. The batter was stunning dont no what
custard powder did but he was spot on...........
mick and steph

[Jamie Donnelly]

no no no, dont mess around with batter, to make the perfect batter just use flour and water!!

seriously, its worth it!

Jamie

[evertontoffe]

jammie give it a try it suprised us, it was really light and tasty
and im not the biggest batter fan prefer bread crumbs,
but this really was great.

[Jamie Donnelly]

well, i will give it a try then!!! lol

Jamie

[paulie]

Did anyone watch Heston Blumenthal in search of perfection on BBC2 make his "Perfect Fish and Chips".

His main aim was to make the batter as crisp as possible

He discovered that crisp food is crisp because of sound - a big part this is the way crisp food vibrates the jaw which is channeled on to the ear drum.

And to make something crispy you need air or gas in the batter. The more pockets of air the more crisp because of the gap between matter

Matter > Air > Matter > Air > Matter > Air > Matter
= Kkkk Kkkk Kkkk runch


Probably a bit geeky but I found it interesting.

So what you need is to get gas into your batter. Beer will work. If you don't want to use beer you can use soda water. Blumenthal used a bottle of becks but also injected extra carbon dioxide into the batter.


The batter should be cold. I would just use self-raising flour and very cold beer/soda water and some salt and pepper


Paulie