Why it works: Rice and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 26% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 8,744 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓
Fritters with Jelly
Ingredients
Directions
Spread currant jelly on each fritter.
Roll the fritter up.
Sprinkle with sugar after rolling.
Serve very hot.
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.
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Rice + sugartop 26% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together8,744 recipes
Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).
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Currant + sugartop 26% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together12,256 recipes
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Rice + curranttop 27% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together497 recipes
Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, pear).
Currant and sugar barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 12,256 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
Swap the currant
How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (rice, sugar):
- Vanillafits better
- Coconutfits better
- Raisinfits better
- Currantthe original
Fit is the average pairing score against rice, sugar. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.
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