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Peach Fritters

Peach fritters are fried peach halves coated in batter, served with brandy sauce.

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 brandy work together. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 339 recipes. Both carry beta-damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

Peach Fritters

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Cut the peaches in half and remove the pits.

  2. Roll the peach halves in powdered sugar and flour.

Fry and serve

  1. Dip the coated peaches in the batter.

  2. Fry the peaches in hot oil until golden brown.

  3. Serve with brandy sauce.

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

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

  2. Sugar + saucetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,147 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Sugar + flourtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together92,116 recipes

    Shared aroma: phenylacetaldehyde (hawthorne, honey).

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

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

  5. Flour + saucetop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,078 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

What each ingredient does

Peaches
Provides the juicy fruit centre and natural sweetness.
Flour
Forms a dry coating that helps the batter cling to the peach halves.
Powdered sugar
Adds sweetness and a dry layer that helps the coating stick.
Batter
Forms a thick coating that fries to a crisp, golden shell.
Oil
Transfers heat quickly so the coating browns and crisps.

The step that matters

Fry in hot oil until golden brown. The oil must be hot enough to set and crisp the batter quickly, so the coating browns before it absorbs grease. If the oil is too cool, the fritters turn heavy and greasy.

Swap the peach

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

  1. Raisinfits better
  2. Vanillafits better
  3. Figfits better
  4. Peachthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, flour, brandy, sauce. 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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