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Bread Fritters

Bread fritters made with sweet milk, bread crumbs, eggs, butter, baking soda, and fried until golden, then sprinkled with powdered sugar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 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

Ingredients

Directions

Make the batter

  1. Heat the milk to boiling.

  2. Pour the hot milk over the bread crumbs.

  3. Beat the mixture until smooth.

  4. Add the beaten egg yolks, salt, melted butter, and baking soda.

  5. Beat the egg whites until stiff.

  6. Fold the stiff egg whites into the batter.

Fry and serve

  1. Fry in hot fat until golden brown.

  2. Sprinkle with powdered sugar.

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. 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. Milk + breadtop 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

Eggs
Egg yolks enrich the batter, and whipped whites add lightness and help the fritters rise.
Fine bread crumbs
Soak up the hot milk to form the body of the batter.
Sweet milk
Hydrates the bread crumbs and gives the batter its liquid base.
Baking soda
Reacts to lighten the batter and help it puff while frying.
Melted butter
Adds richness and fat that contributes to flavor and tenderness.

The step that matters

Folding in the stiff egg whites. Whites hold air only when whipped stiff, and overmixing after folding deflates them. Gentle folding keeps the batter light so the fritters puff rather than turn dense.

“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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