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Banana Fritters

A fried dough snack with banana, sugar, milk, eggs, baking powder, and flour, rolled around banana and coated in powdered sugar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Milk and egg are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 18% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 88,785 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Banana Fritters

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Combine eggs, sugar, milk, salt, baking powder, and enough flour to roll out dough as for cookies.

  2. Cut a banana lengthwise into two halves.

  3. Roll dough around banana halves, pinching the ends to hold in place.

Fry and serve

  1. Fry the wrapped bananas in deep hot fat until golden.

  2. Roll the fried fritters in powdered sugar.

  3. Serve with a clear sauce, flavor to taste.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

731Calories
27 gProtein
14 gFat
120 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 5 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Salt1 tsp (6g)0

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

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. See the original page.

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. Milk + eggtop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together88,785 recipes

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

  2. Sugar + milktop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together77,875 recipes

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

  3. Sugar + eggtop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together122,807 recipes

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

Sugar and milk barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 77,875 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

Eggs
Bind the dough and add richness and structure as it cooks.
Baking powder
Releases gas during frying so the dough puffs and turns light.
Flour (in the method)
Forms the dough's structure so it can be rolled around the banana.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and helps the fritters brown in the hot fat.

The step that matters

Fry the wrapped bananas in deep hot fat until golden. If the fat is not hot enough, the dough absorbs oil and turns greasy instead of crisping. Too hot, and the outside browns before the dough cooks through.

“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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