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Corn Fritters

Corn fritters are small fried cakes made from grated corn, flour, eggs, celery, and seasonings.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Corn Fritters

Why it works: Pepper and celery match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 16,012 recipes. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

Corn Fritters

Ingredients

Directions

Make the batter

  1. In a bowl, combine grated corn, flour, baking powder, salt, and pepper.

  2. Add beaten eggs and chopped celery, mixing well.

Fry

  1. Heat a griddle and add a small amount of lard.

  2. Spoon the mixture onto the griddle to form small cakes.

  3. Fry until golden brown on both sides.

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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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. Pepper + celerytop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together16,012 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  2. Corn + celerytop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together920 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol (clove, smoky).

  3. Corn + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,324 recipes

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

  4. Corn + flourtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,165 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Flour + celerytop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,905 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Grated corn
Provides the main bulk and sweet corn flavor of the fritters.
Flour
Gives the batter structure so the fritters hold together when fried.
Baking powder
Releases gas that lightens the batter and helps the fritters rise.
Eggs
Bind the mixture and set during frying to hold the cakes together.
Celery
Adds moisture and a mild crunch to the batter.

The step that matters

Frying until golden brown on both sides. Medium heat and enough fat let the surface brown and set before the centre cooks through. Too hot and the outside burns while the inside stays raw; too cool and the cakes absorb grease and turn soggy.

Swap the celery

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (corn, flour, egg, pepper):

  1. Turmericfits better
  2. Jalapenofits better
  3. Nutmegfits better
  4. Celerythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against corn, flour, egg, pepper. 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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