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Banana Fbittbb8

Banana fritters are fried banana pieces coated in a batter of flour, eggs, milk, and olive oil.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Lemon and orange match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 10,634 recipes. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

Banana Fbittbb8

Ingredients

Directions

Make the batter

  1. Sift together flour, sugar, and salt in a bowl.

  2. Beat eggs until light, then add milk.

  3. Combine wet and dry ingredients, then mix in olive oil and lemon rind.

Prepare the bananas

  1. Peel bananas, cut each in half, and split each half.

  2. Place bananas in a bowl, cover with sugar and orange juice, and let stand for one hour.

Fry

  1. Dip each banana piece in the batter and fry in deep fat until golden.

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.

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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. Lemon + orangetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together10,634 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  2. Olive + lemontop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,922 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  3. Olive + orangetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,456 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  4. Banana + orangetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,118 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  5. Milk + bananatop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,470 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

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

What each ingredient does

Flour
Forms the structure of the batter that coats and holds the banana pieces.
Eggs
Bind the batter and add structure as they set during frying.
Milk
Adds moisture and loosens the batter to a coating consistency.
Bananas
Provide the sweet, soft filling that cooks through inside the crisp coating.
Sugar
Sweetens the bananas and promotes browning of the golden crust.
Olive oil
Adds fat that enriches the batter and helps it brown and stay tender.

The step that matters

Frying in deep fat until golden. Oil that is too cool lets the batter absorb grease and turn heavy, while oil that is too hot browns the outside before the banana heats through. Steady mid-high heat gives a crisp coating and a hot centre.

Swap the banana

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (flour, sugar, egg, milk, olive, lemon, orange):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Figfits better
  3. Blueberryfits better
  4. Bananathe original

Fit is the average pairing score against flour, sugar, egg, milk, olive, lemon, orange. 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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