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Wildebeeskastaiings

A South African deep-fried dough roll soaked in cold lemon golden syrup, served as a dessert.

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Why it works: Sugar and syrup match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,842 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Wildebeeskastaiings

Time8 minutes

Ingredients

Directions

Make the syrup

  1. Bring the sugar, water, lemon juice and golden syrup to the boil and stir until all the sugar has dissolved.

  2. Cook syrup for 8 minutes over moderate heat.

  3. Cool in the deep freeze till ice cold.

Make the dough

  1. Sift the flour, baking powder and salt together.

  2. Rub the 12.5 ml of butter into the mixture.

  3. Beat the eggs and milk together and cut this mixture into the flour mixture with a spatula.

  4. Add a little extra milk if the dough is too stiff.

Shape and fry

  1. Shape the dough into a sausage and divide it into 6 equal lengths.

  2. Roll each length into a thin rectangular shape on a flour strewn surface.

  3. Spread softened butter on the dough rectangles and sprinkle them with cornflour.

  4. Stack the rectangles on top of each other.

  5. Roll the stack up lengthwise into a cylinder.

  6. Using a sharp knife, cut the roll into 2 cm slices.

  7. Moisten the ends of each little roll and press them together to prevent the roll from unraveling when they're fried.

  8. Deep fry a few rolls at a time in moderately hot oil till they're golden brown.

  9. Remove from oil with a slotted spoon and immediately submerge in the ice-cold syrup (use a potato masher to keep under for a while).

  10. Drain on a wire rack on a tray.

  11. Chill before serving.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

964Calories
28 gProtein
40 gFat
124 gCarbs

Counts 8 of 10 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 8 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Waternot in our table0
Syrupnot 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. Sugar + syruptop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,842 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

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

  3. Flour + buttertop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together124,287 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Flour + milktop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together78,219 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Sugar + flourtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together92,116 recipes

    Shared aroma: phenylacetaldehyde (hawthorne, honey).

Flour and butter barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 124,287 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

Cake flour
Forms the main structure of the dough once mixed with liquid.
Eggs
Bind the dough and add richness and structure to the fritters.
Milk
Adds moisture so the dough comes together softly.
White sugar
Makes the syrup that sweetens and moistens the fried rolls.
Baking powder
Releases gas in the dough to help it rise and lighten.
Golden syrup
Adds sweetness and a rich flavour to the syrup and helps keep it moist.

The step that matters

Submerging the hot fritters in ice-cold syrup. Hot fried dough soaks up cold syrup quickly, so the syrup must be fully cooled and the rolls held under until absorbed. Pressing the ends shut before frying keeps the spirals from unravelling.

Swap the lemon

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Raisinfits better
  3. Figfits about as well
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, syrup, flour, butter, egg, milk. 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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