Recipes For A Nervous Breakdown a highly original cookery debut cum memoir from HerFamily.ie’s own, Sophie White is in shops now or available to order online.
All week we will be running recipes from the book to give regular readers of Sophie’s brilliant HerFamily.ie columns a flavour of Recipes For A Nervous Breakdown.
This recipe is a nod to my adolescent self. My girlfriends, the bitch-herd, were never tempted by a deep-fried Mars bar, but we were always threatening to give them a go until finally, my curiosity got the better of me. The result? Not as sickening as you’d expect . . . in fact, dangerously nice.
Deep Fried Mini Mars Bars
Makes 10-12 servings.
Ingredients:
125g self-raising flour
130ml milk
1 egg
1⁄4 teaspoon salt
Sunflower oil, for frying
10-12 fun-size Mars bars
Directions:
1. Place the flour, the milk, the egg and the salt in a bowl, and whisk thoroughly to make a smooth quite thick batter.
2. Fill a small pot up to 5cm with the oil and place over a medium heat for about five minutes. To test that the oil is hot enough drop a small bit of the batter in if it sizzles and immediately pops back to the surface then the oil is ready.
3. Dip the each Mars bar into the batter, then carefully lower into the oil. Fry until golden in batches of two or three, then drain them on a paper towel for a couple of minutes.
4. Serve with some vanilla ice cream and a good dollop of shame and self-loathing, as befits eating a deep-fried Mars bar.
Refreshingly honest and hilariously observed, Recipes for a Nervous Breakdown captures the challenges faced by the modern millennial woman with a recipe to accompany every life landmark.
Charting Sophie’s life from a foray into madness as a result of dabbling in recreational drugs in her early 20s, to surviving her mother and her son – her arch nemeses and her two favourite people in the whole wide world. From meeting and falling in love with The Man, to losing her father in his fifties to early onset Alzheimer’s disease – and eating, always eating: Sophie White’s food philosophy is firmly based in the real world where hearts get broken, cake gets eaten and food has a role to play in almost every occasion.
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