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Eice Fritters

A sweet fritter made with lemon rind, milk, rice, brandy, and fried in lard.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Milk and rice are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 7,374 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Eice Fritters

Ingredients

Directions

Make the rice mixture

  1. Pare the rind of the lemon very thinly.

  2. Boil the lemon rind in milk with sugar until sweetened.

  3. Add the rice to the milk and cook until soft.

  4. Remove the lemon peel and beat the rice with the brandy.

  5. Shape the mixture into fritters.

Coat and fry

  1. Brush the fritters with egg yolks and cover with bread crumbs.

  2. Fry the fritters in lard until golden.

  3. Dust with fine sugar and glaze if 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. Milk + ricetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,374 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  2. Milk + breadtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,466 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  3. Lemon + ricetop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,366 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,e)-2,4-decadienal (fatty, deep fried).

  4. Rice + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,259 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

  5. Egg + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Rice
Cooks soft and thickens with milk, giving the fritters their body.
Milk
Cooks with the rice to create a soft, moist base for the mixture.
Egg yolks
Brushed on the fritters so the bread crumbs adhere and brown evenly.
Bread crumbs
Form a crisp, golden coating that browns during frying.
Lard
Fries the fritters, browning their coating and adding richness.

The step that matters

Fry the fritters in lard until golden. Frying at a steady heat browns the crumb coating before the inside overheats. Too hot and the crumbs darken or burn while the centre stays cool; too cool and the fritters absorb fat and turn greasy.

Swap the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (milk, sugar, rice, brandy, egg, bread):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Figfits better
  3. Apricotfits better
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against milk, sugar, rice, brandy, egg, bread. 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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