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Cheese Fritters

Cheese fritters are small fried cakes made from grated Parmesan, stale breadcrumbs, eggs, salt, paprika, and butter.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Cheese Fritters

Why it works: Bread and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Cheese Fritters

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the mixture

  1. Mix the grated Parmesan cheese with the stale bread crumbs.

  2. Beat the eggs thoroughly and add them to the cheese mixture.

  3. Season with salt and paprika.

Fry

  1. Drop spoonfuls of the mixture onto a hot buttered skillet.

  2. Brown one side, then turn and brown the other side.

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. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  2. Parmesan cheese + buttertop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,163 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  3. Bread + eggtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

  4. Parmesan cheese + breadtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together577 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  5. Egg + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Bind the mixture together and set when cooked, giving the fritters structure.
Parmesan cheese
Adds savory flavor and browns in the pan, contributing color and a salty, nutty taste.
Stale bread crumbs
Absorb moisture and add body, helping the mixture hold its shape when fried.

The step that matters

Drop spoonfuls onto a hot buttered skillet. If the skillet is not hot enough, the fritters absorb fat and turn greasy and pale instead of browning. A hot pan sets the egg quickly so the outside crisps before the inside spreads or stays wet.

“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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