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Peace Fritters

A fried peach dessert with a sweet batter and a buttery sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 13 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and milk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 81,283 recipes. Both carry (z)-4-heptenal, which smells biscuit, cream. The science ↓

Peace Fritters

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Peel the peaches, split each in two, and remove the stones.

  2. Dust a little powdered sugar over the peaches.

  3. Dip each piece in the batter and fry in hot fat until golden.

  4. Whisk the butter in a saucepan until creamy.

  5. Gradually add the sugar and whisk the mixture.

  6. Beat the yolks of two eggs.

  7. Add nutmeg, cold water, and rum.

  8. Stir the mixture into the warm batter.

  9. Heat gradually, stirring constantly until smooth.

  10. Beat the yolks of three eggs.

  11. Add milk, salt, and flour, and mix well.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

Explore the science

The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Butter + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  2. Nutmeg + flourtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,623 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Peach + milktop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together781 recipes

    Shared aroma: phellandrene (minty).

  4. Peach + rumtop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together84 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  5. Peach + nutmegtop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together342 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Yolks thicken the batter and add richness and structure as they set.
Flour
Provides the starch and gluten that give the batter body and hold it around the fruit.
Milk
Adds moisture and loosens the batter so it coats the peaches evenly.
Butter
Adds fat for richness and a tender texture in the batter.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and helps the batter brown in the hot fat.
Peaches
Supply sweet, juicy fruit that softens and perfumes the fritters as they cook.

The step that matters

Heat gradually, stirring constantly until smooth.. Egg yolks thicken and can curdle or scramble if heated too quickly. Gentle heat with constant stirring lets them thicken evenly into a smooth mixture.

Swap the peach

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sugar, butter, egg, nutmeg, rum, milk, flour):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Raisinfits better
  3. Figfits better
  4. Peachthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, butter, egg, nutmeg, rum, milk, flour. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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