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Wine Fritters

A fried biscuit dessert made with wine‑soaked biscuits dipped in egg batter and coated with powdered sugar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Milk and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 81,283 recipes. Both carry (z)-4-heptenal, which smells biscuit, cream. The science ↓

Wine Fritters

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the batter

  1. Beat the eggs until light.

  2. Gradually stir in the sweet wine and powdered sugar.

Soak the biscuits

  1. Split the milk biscuits in two and soak them in sweet wine for about 5 minutes.

  2. Drain the biscuits on a sieve.

Fry and serve

  1. Dip each biscuit piece in the batter.

  2. Fry in hot butter until light brown.

  3. Sift powdered sugar over the fritters and serve in a napkin.

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

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

  2. Wine + buttertop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,645 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).

  3. Biscuit + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,009 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  4. Sugar + biscuittop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,874 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-penten-3-one (fish, pungent).

  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
Provide structure and richness to the batter, binding it around the biscuit pieces.
Sweet wine
Adds sweetness and aroma, and soaks into the biscuits to flavour them.
Milk biscuits
Act as the base of the fritters, soaking up wine and batter before frying.
Powdered sugar
Sweetens the batter and adds a light finishing sweetness on top.

The step that matters

Frying in hot butter until light brown. If the butter is not hot enough, the batter absorbs fat and turns greasy; if it is too hot, the outside browns before the inside sets. Steady heat gives an evenly golden, crisp coating.

“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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