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Bread Fritters— No. 1

Bread slices soaked in milk and egg mixture, then fried in butter.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Bread Fritters— No. 1

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Cut the bread into half-inch slices.

  2. Beat the eggs and stir in the milk and salt.

  3. Dip the bread slices into the milk and egg mixture and place them in a deep dish.

  4. Pour the remaining milk and egg mixture over the bread and let it soak until tender.

Cook and serve

  1. Sauté the soaked bread in butter, turning until both sides are light brown.

  2. Serve hot for breakfast with syrup or sugar and butter.

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. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

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

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

  3. Bread + milktop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,466 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  4. Bread + eggtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

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

  5. Egg + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

What each ingredient does

Stale bread
Its dry, open crumb soaks up the egg custard and holds its shape while frying.
Eggs
Set when cooked, binding the soaked bread into a tender, sliceable custard coating.
Milk
Adds moisture that softens the bread and carries the egg into the soaking mixture.
Butter
Fat for sautéing that encourages browning and adds rich flavor to the crust.

The step that matters

Soaking the bread until tender. Bread needs enough time to absorb the egg and milk mixture evenly. Too little soaking leaves dry centers, while too much can make slices fall apart in the pan.

“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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