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Delicious Apple Fritters

Apple fritters made by coating apple slices in batter and frying.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Apple and cinnamon are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,598 recipes. Both carry methyl cinnamate, which smells strawberry. The science ↓

Delicious Apple Fritters

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the apples

  1. Pare and core the apples, then cut them into round slices about ½ inch thick.

  2. Mix sugar and ground cinnamon together, then dip each apple slice in the mixture.

Batter and fry

  1. In a bowl, combine milk, eggs, baking soda, salt, and enough flour to create a batter similar to light cake batter.

  2. Coat each apple slice in the batter until thickly covered.

  3. Drop the coated slices into hot drippings and fry until light brown.

  4. Dust the fritters with powdered sugar before serving.

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. Apple + cinnamontop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,598 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl cinnamate (strawberry).

  2. Cinnamon + flourtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,341 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Cinnamon + milktop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,655 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

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

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  5. Apple + milktop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,104 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-heptenal (creamy, biscuit).

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

Eggs
Bind the batter and help it set into a light coating around the apple slices.
Flour
Forms the batter structure that cooks into a solid, coherent coating.
Milk
Thins the batter to a light cake-batter consistency for an even coating.
Baking soda
Releases gas in the batter to help it puff and stay light when fried.
Sugar
Sweetens the apple slices and helps the surface brown in the hot drippings.

The step that matters

Frying the coated slices. The drippings must be hot enough to set the batter quickly. If the fat is too cool, the coating absorbs grease and turns heavy and soggy instead of crisping and browning.

Swap the apple

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

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

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