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Dagmar Fritters

Dagmar fritters are sweet, lemon‑citrus fritters made with flour, eggs, milk, sugar, cinnamon, and candied citron, fried until golden.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Lemon and cinnamon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 7,950 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Dagmar Fritters

Ingredients

Directions

Make the batter

  1. In a bowl, mix flour and salt.

  2. Add eggs and beat until smooth.

  3. Stir in milk, powdered sugar, lemon peel, and cinnamon; beat again.

  4. Fold in candied citron pieces.

Cook and fry

  1. Melt butter in a stewpan over low heat.

  2. Pour in the batter and cook slowly, ensuring it doesn't stick.

  3. Once solid, remove from the pan and cut into finger-length strips with slits at each end.

  4. Fry the strips in boiling fat until golden brown.

Serve

  1. Serve on a napkin or dust with sifted sugar.

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.

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. Lemon + cinnamontop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together7,950 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  2. Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  3. Flour + cinnamontop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,341 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Milk + cinnamontop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,655 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  5. Sugar + cinnamontop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together30,779 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

Sugar and cinnamon barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 30,779 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

All-purpose flour
Forms the structure of the batter so it sets solid when cooked.
Eggs
Bind the batter and provide structure as they set during cooking.
Milk
Adds moisture and loosens the batter to a smooth consistency.
Candied citron
Adds sweetness and chewy bits of citrus flavor throughout the fritters.

The step that matters

Cook the batter slowly over low heat. Batter cooked too fast over high heat scorches on the bottom before the eggs and flour set through. Low, gentle heat lets it firm evenly so it can be lifted and cut cleanly.

Swap the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (flour, egg, milk, sugar, cinnamon, butter):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Raisinfits better
  3. Figfits better
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against flour, egg, milk, sugar, cinnamon, butter. 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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