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Hominy, Fried

Fried slices of boiled hominy coated in flour, egg, and breadcrumbs, served with lemon juice and sugar or orange marmalade.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Lemon and orange match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 10,634 recipes. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

Hominy, Fried

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Cut the cold hominy into slices.

  2. Coat the slices in flour.

  3. Dip the floured slices in beaten egg.

  4. Roll the slices in bread crumbs.

Fry and serve

  1. Heat oil or fat in a pan until boiling.

  2. Fry the coated hominy slices until golden brown.

  3. Serve with lemon juice and sugar or orange marmalade.

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. Lemon + orangetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together10,634 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  2. Egg + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

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

    Shared aroma: phenylacetaldehyde (hawthorne, honey).

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

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Flour + lemontop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together30,404 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, 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

Boiled hominy
Forms the base of the dish, sliced and fried to a crisp outer layer.
Flour
Dry coating that helps the egg adhere to the hominy slices.
Egg
Binds the bread crumbs to the hominy so the coating sticks during frying.
Bread crumbs
Forms a crisp, golden-browning crust when fried.
Lemon juice
Adds acidity that brightens the rich, fried coating.

The step that matters

Fry the coated hominy slices until golden brown. Oil must be hot enough to brown the crumb coating quickly; if it is too cool, the crumbs absorb excess oil and turn greasy before the crust forms, while overcooking dries the hominy.

Swap the orange

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

  1. Raisinfits better
  2. Vanillafits better
  3. Figfits about as well
  4. Orangethe original

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