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Fritter From Netherlands Antilles

A sweet fried dough fritter with raisins and diced apples, flavored with vanilla and dusted with confectioners' sugar.

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Why it works: Flour and raisin match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 9,075 recipes. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

Fritter From Netherlands Antilles

Time1 1/2 hours rise

Ingredients

Directions

Make the batter

  1. Mix together yeast mixture and eggs, water, vanilla and salt, and add to flour slowly.

  2. Add fruit, let rise 1 1/2 hours.

Fry and serve

  1. Drop in hot frying oil, dust with confectioners' sugar.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

751Calories
20 gProtein
7 gFat
150 gCarbs

Counts 7 of 8 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 7 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Apple1 medium (182g)95
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Grape1/2 cup (76g)62
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Vanilla1 tsp extract (4ml)12
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Waternot in our table0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

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Steps grouped into stages for easier reading; the method is the source's own.

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. Flour + raisintop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together9,075 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  2. Vanilla + appletop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,501 recipes

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

  3. Sugar + vanillatop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together35,032 recipes

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

  4. Vanilla + raisintop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together782 recipes

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

  5. Vanilla + flourtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together19,241 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

Sugar and vanilla barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 35,032 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Flour
Forms the batter structure that holds the fritters together as they fry.
Eggs
Add structure and richness, helping the batter bind and set when fried.
Dry yeast
Produces gas during the rise, giving the batter its airy, light texture.
Seedless raisins
Add chewy sweetness and moisture throughout the fritters.
Apples
Add moisture, tartness and fruity flavor that contrasts with the sugar.

The step that matters

Drop in hot frying oil. If the oil is not hot enough, the batter absorbs oil and turns greasy and dense instead of crisp and light. Oil that is too cool also lets the fritters cook slowly inside before the outside browns.

Swap the apple

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sugar, egg, vanilla, flour, raisin):

  1. Figfits better
  2. Blueberryfits better
  3. Coconutfits better
  4. Applethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, egg, vanilla, flour, raisin. 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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