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Apple Fritters

Apple fritters are fried batter pieces with grated apples.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Wheat and olive match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,100 recipes. Both carry 2-undecenal, which smells sweet. The science ↓

Apple Fritters

Ingredients

Directions

Make the batter

  1. In a bowl, combine the whole-wheat flour, egg yolks, milk, and olive oil. Beat until smooth.

  2. Grate the peeled apples into the batter and fold in the beaten egg whites.

Fry and serve

  1. Heat oil in a pan.

  2. Drop spoonfuls of the batter into the hot oil.

  3. Fry until golden brown and serve as desired.

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. Wheat + olivetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,100 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  2. Wheat + milktop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,418 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,z)-2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, melon).

  3. Milk + appletop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,104 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-heptenal (creamy, biscuit).

  4. Wheat + flourtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,373 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Olive + appletop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,565 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, fruity).

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

What each ingredient does

Whole-wheat flour
Provides the main structure of the batter.
Egg yolks
Add richness and help the batter hold together.
Egg whites
Beaten and folded in to lighten the batter and help it rise.
Milk
Adds moisture and loosens the batter.
Apples
Add moisture, sweetness, and flavour to the batter.

The step that matters

Drop spoonfuls into hot oil. If the oil is not hot enough, the batter absorbs it and becomes greasy; if too hot, the outside browns before the centre cooks through. Steady, moderate heat gives a crisp, evenly cooked fritter.

Swap the apple

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (wheat, flour, egg, milk, olive):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Avocadofits better
  3. Figfits better
  4. Applethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against wheat, flour, egg, milk, olive. 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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