Fish & Chip Batter

[Cookwithlove]

OLD FASHION OR ENGLISH FISH AND CHIP BATTER

Anyone have a better recip than mine for english fish and chip?.

12 tbsp flour

1 tsp Bicarbonate of soda

seasonging

Mix well and gradually add beer depending upon how thick yoy want the batter to be.

Thanks

[rooftop1000]

Very cold beer helps, some people are using club soda instead, and some are going lighter by using rice flour...

enjoy

I want to fry something, maybe Monday is onion ring day

tracey

[maggiethecat]

I'd forget the bicarb. In my experience thin, golden crunchy batter is best achieved with flour and liquid only. (I prefer soda water to beer in this situation only!)

[miladyinsanity]

Very cold beer helps, some people are using club soda instead, and some are going lighter by using rice flour...

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But not too much of it. Otherwise your fish will be hard, not crispy.

[emsny]

Harold McGee recently published this in the NY Times, adapted from Heston Blumenthal. It yields an unusual but amazingly crisp batter - that stays crisp far longer than standard ones. It evidently has to do with the alcohol.

1 1/4 cups white rice flour

1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour

1 teaspoon baking powder

1/2 teaspoon salt

1 1/4 cups vodka

1 1/4 cups lager beer

[AzianBrewer]

Beer is definitely going to give it the golden brown appearance since it contained sugar from the malt as opposed to club soda or seltzer.