Batter (cooking)

Beer batter, batter or batter is a thick dough that is used for frying fish, vegetables, fruit, or more rarely, small pieces of meat. Even sweet foods such as fritters are made with beer batter.

The dough is made from flour and to taste light or dark beer. It must contain no egg, but desired a special crispness, egg or egg yolk can be stirred. The addition of beaten egg whites into egg white makes the Fully Baked voluminous and airy. The dough is spicy flavored with salt and pepper or sweet with vanilla or cinnamon, and other ingredients such as sesame seeds, poppy seeds or coconut flakes can be added.

There are also batter, which is touched instead of beer wine. It then calls this also wine batter.

The dough should be liquid, but not soup -like thin, so that it adheres to the previously dusted with flour dough. The coated with dough pieces are fried in hot fat tasteless and served still warm.