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Eice Fritters

A fried rice mixture with sugar, lemon zest, cinnamon, milk, and eggs, served with fine loaf sugar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Rice and cinnamon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,137 recipes. Both carry guaiacol, which smells smoky, sweet. The science ↓

Eice Fritters

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the rice

  1. Wash, drain, and dry the rice.

  2. Combine rice, sugar, lemon zest, cinnamon, and milk in a saucepan.

  3. Boil while stirring frequently for 45 minutes.

  4. Rub the mixture through a fine sieve.

Make the batter

  1. Beat egg yolks and egg whites separately.

  2. Add yolks to the rice mixture and beat for 10 minutes.

  3. Fold in egg whites and beat for 5 minutes.

Fry and serve

  1. Melt butter in a small omelet pan.

  2. Fry the mixture until golden on both sides.

  3. Drain fritters on paper towels.

  4. Sift fine loaf sugar over fritters.

  5. Serve on a folded 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.

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. Rice + cinnamontop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,137 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  2. Lemon + cinnamontop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together7,950 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

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

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

  4. Rice + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,374 recipes

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

  5. Cinnamon + milktop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,655 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Rice
Forms the thick body of the fritters once cooked down with milk and sugar.
Eggs
Egg whites whipped separately add lightness, and the yolks help set the fritters.
Milk
Cooks with the rice to create a soft, creamy base.
Sugar
Sweetens the batter and helps the fritters brown in the pan.
Butter
Fat for frying that browns the outside and adds richness.

The step that matters

Fold in egg whites and beat for 5 minutes. Whipped egg whites trap air that lightens the batter; overbeating or deflating them makes the fritters dense and flat.

Swap the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (rice, sugar, cinnamon, milk, egg, butter):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Coconutfits better
  3. Figfits about as well
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against rice, sugar, cinnamon, milk, egg, butter. 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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