Ricotta Balls

This mixture of ricotta cheese, eggs, sugar, flour and baking powder is flavored with lemon peel, and dropped by spoonfuls into oil to fry until golden.

Ingredients:

• 1/2 cup sugar
• 4 eggs
• 1 tsp vanilla
• Grated peel of 1 lemon
• 1 lb ricotta cheese
• 2 cups flour
• 4 tsp baking powder

Directions:

Beat sugar and eggs. Add vanilla extract and grated lemon peel. Stir in ricotta. Combine and add flour and baking powder; mix well. Heat oil in frying pan and drop rounded teaspoons of batter and fry until golden.

Number of Servings: makes about 3 dozen balls