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Vanilla Fritters

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Why it works: Cream and sauce are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,787 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Vanilla Fritters

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare the fritters as you would for lemon fritters, adding vanilla flavoring instead.

  2. Serve the fritters with sweet cream 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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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. Cream + saucetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,787 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Vanilla + creamtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together12,301 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonanone (fruity, floral).

  3. Vanilla + saucetop 33% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together609 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

Vanilla and cream barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 12,301 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 vanilla

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

  1. Avocadofits better
  2. Strawberryfits about as well
  3. Coconutfits about as well
  4. Vanillathe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cream, sauce. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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