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Peach Fritters

A fried dessert of peaches coated in batter.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Peach Fritters

Why it works: Peach and wine work together. They rank in the top 14% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 218 recipes. Both carry hexanal, which smells green, grassy. The science ↓

Peach Fritters

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Soak the peach quarters in sweetened wine for a few minutes.

  2. In a bowl, mix flour, egg, and water to create a batter.

  3. Dip each peach piece into the batter.

Fry

  1. Fry in hot oil until golden brown.

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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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. Peach + winetop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together218 recipes

    Shared aroma: hexanal (green, grassy).

  2. Flour + eggtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together106,462 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Peach + flourtop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together787 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Wine + flourtop 28% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together6,435 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Peach + eggtop 29% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,048 recipes

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

Flour and egg barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 106,462 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

Peaches
Provide the fruit filling and natural sweetness that the batter encloses.
Flour
Forms the structure of the batter, which sets into a crisp coating when fried.
Egg
Binds the batter and helps it set firmly around the fruit during frying.
Sweetened wine
Adds sweetness and aromatic flavor to the peach quarters.

The step that matters

Fry in hot oil until golden brown. Hot oil sets the batter quickly, so it forms a crisp shell and absorbs less oil. If the oil is too cool, the batter soaks up grease and turns soggy; if it is too hot, the outside browns before the fruit heats through.

Swap the peach

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

  1. Raisinfits better
  2. Lemonfits better
  3. Vanillafits better
  4. Peachthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against wine, flour, 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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