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Ricc Fritters

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Syrup and sauce match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 173 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Ricc Fritters

Ingredients

Directions

  1. In a saucepan, heat the mixture until thickened, then add crushed ratafias and orange zest.

  2. Sweeten with sugar and blend thoroughly.

  3. Turn the mixture onto a slab and pat it into a flat cake about ⅜ inch thick; let it rest to firm up.

  4. Once firm, cut into small rounds or ovals using a cutter.

  5. Dust with flour, dip in beaten egg, and roll in finely crushed ratafias.

  6. Fry in boiling fat a few at a time until golden, then drain and dry on a hot napkin dusted with sugar.

  7. Serve with apricot syrup sauce if desired.

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. Syrup + saucetop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together173 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Sugar + syruptop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,842 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Orange + apricottop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together703 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  4. Sugar + saucetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,147 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

    Shared aroma: phenylacetaldehyde (hawthorne, honey).

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

Swap the apricot

The recipe marks apricot as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (orange, sugar, flour, egg, syrup, sauce):

  1. Raisinfits better
  2. Vanillafits better
  3. Lemonfits better
  4. Apricotthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against orange, sugar, flour, egg, syrup, sauce. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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