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Peach Fritters

Ensure the lard is boiling before adding the peaches to prevent spoilage.

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 lemon work together. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 947 recipes. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓

Peach Fritters

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Peel, stone, and halve the peaches.

  2. Sprinkle peaches with grated lemon peel and sugar, then add the brandy or rum.

  3. Cover and let the mixture sit for 2 to 3 hours, then drain the peaches.

  4. Make a batter for fruit fritters using the liquor from the peaches.

  5. Just before frying, fold in the beaten egg whites until the batter is thick enough to coat the fruit.

  6. Heat lard in a saucepan until boiling.

  7. Dip each peach piece into the batter and drop into the hot lard.

  8. Fry until golden brown, then remove with a skimmer and place on brown paper to drain.

  9. Sift powdered sugar over the fritters and serve in a pyramid on cut paper.

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 + lemontop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together947 recipes

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

  2. Peach + brandytop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together339 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  3. Brandy + eggtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,340 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetoin (butter, cream).

  4. Peach + sugartop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,308 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  5. Lemon + sugartop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together53,532 recipes

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

Lemon and sugar barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 53,532 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

Swap the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (peach, brandy, sugar, egg):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Apricotfits better
  3. Raspberryfits better
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against peach, brandy, sugar, egg. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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