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Apple Feittees

Apple fritters made from a batter of milk, dough, eggs, flour, sugar, lemon peel, and apples, fried in lard.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Milk and apple are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,104 recipes. Both carry 4-heptenal, which smells creamy, biscuit. The science ↓

Apple Feittees

Ingredients

Directions

Make the batter

  1. In a bowl, combine sweet milk and dissolved sweet light dough.

  2. Add the separated egg yolks and mix well.

  3. In another bowl, beat the egg whites until stiff and fold them into the mixture.

  4. Stir in salt, flour, sugar, and grated lemon peel until smooth.

Fry and serve

  1. Drop spoonfuls of the batter with a piece of apple into hot lard.

  2. Fry until golden brown, then remove and sprinkle with powdered or spiced sugar.

  3. Let them stand for a few minutes to become lighter 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. Milk + appletop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,104 recipes

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

  2. Lemon + appletop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,551 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  3. Milk + flourtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together78,219 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Flour + sugartop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together92,116 recipes

    Shared aroma: phenylacetaldehyde (hawthorne, honey).

  5. Milk + lemontop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together19,053 recipes

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

Milk and flour barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 78,219 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
Whipped whites lighten the batter and give the fritters an airy, puffy texture.
Flour
Forms the batter's structure, which sets around the apple as the fritters fry.
Sweet light dough
Dissolved into the milk, it acts as a leavening agent so the fritters rise.
Apples
Provide the fruit flavor and moisture inside each fritter.

The step that matters

Folding in the beaten egg whites. Stiffly beaten whites hold air that lightens the batter. Stirring them in vigorously deflates that air, leaving dense fritters instead of light ones.

Swap the apple

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

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

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