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Oyster Fritters

A fried oyster dish with battered oysters on skewers, served with parsley garnish.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Oyster and egg are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 14% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,103 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Oyster Fritters

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Remove gills from oysters and set aside.

  2. In a bowl, beat the eggs and mix until thick.

  3. Season the batter with coarse sea salt.

Fry and serve

  1. Skewer the oysters on thin skewers, leaving space between each.

  2. Dip each skewer well in the batter.

  3. Fry the skewers in hot oil until golden brown.

  4. Serve on a napkin and garnish with fresh parsley.

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. Oyster + eggtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,103 recipes

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

  2. Egg + parsleytop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,765 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  3. Oyster + parsleytop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,211 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

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

What each ingredient does

Oysters
Provide the main filling, cooking quickly in the batter to stay tender inside.
Eggs
Thicken the batter and bind it so it coats the oysters and sets as it fries.

The step that matters

Fry the skewers in hot oil until golden brown. Oil that is not hot enough lets the batter soak up fat and turn greasy before it sets. Hot oil sets the egg coating quickly, forming a crisp shell while the oysters stay juicy inside.

Swap the parsley

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

  1. Capersfits better
  2. Nutmegfits about as well
  3. Parsleythe original
  4. Dillfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against oyster, egg. 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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