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Pineapple Fritters

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Pineapple and banana match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 733 recipes. Both carry ethyl isobutyrate, which smells fruity, ethereal. The science ↓

Pineapple Fritters

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Pick or grate fresh pineapple and sprinkle with sugar. Let it sit for 2 hours.

  2. Use the juice from the pineapple or syrup from canned pineapple to make the batter.

  3. Stir the pineapple into the batter.

  4. Fry the fritters in boiling lard.

  5. Serve with a sauce made of sugar, raisins, and sliced bananas.

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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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. Pineapple + bananatop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together733 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  2. Sugar + syruptop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,842 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Sugar + raisintop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,481 recipes

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

  4. Pineapple + raisintop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together139 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Syrup + raisintop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together336 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

Swap the raisin

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pineapple, sugar, syrup, banana):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Pearfits better
  3. Strawberryfits better
  4. Raisinthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pineapple, sugar, syrup, banana. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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