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Cymling Fritters

Fritters made from mashed young cymlings, egg, butter, and seasonings, fried or baked.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and bread are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Cymling Fritters

Oven, in the book's wordsA hot oven

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the squash

  1. Boil young cymlings until tender, then mash and run through a colander.

Make the mixture

  1. In a bowl, mix the cymling puree with 1 egg, season with salt, pepper, and butter.

Cook

  1. Form the mixture into cakes and fry until light brown.

  2. For a variation, line a buttered deep dish with thin slices of buttered bread, pour in the cymling mixture, and top with butter and grated cracker.

  3. Bake until light brown.

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 + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

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

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

  3. Milk + breadtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,466 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  4. Egg + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

  5. Pepper + breadtop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,964 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Young cymlings
Provide the main bulk and soft, moist body of the fritters.
Egg
Binds the mashed squash so the mixture holds its shape when cooked.
Butter
Adds richness and helps the cakes brown in the pan.

The step that matters

Forming and frying the cakes. The mashed squash is wet, so if it is not drained well through the colander and bound with egg, the cakes can be loose and may steam rather than brown when fried.

“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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