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Corn Fritters

A fried corn mixture made with eggs, milk, salt, pepper, and butter.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Corn Fritters

Why it works: Milk and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 81,283 recipes. Both carry (z)-4-heptenal, which smells biscuit, cream. The science ↓

Corn Fritters

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the corn

  1. Remove the husks and silk from the corn.

  2. Score each row of kernels down the center and scrape out the contents with the back of a knife, holding the ear nearly upright. Scrape at least twice around the cob to remove all the milk and yellow substance.

Make the batter

  1. Beat the eggs thoroughly in a large platter, then mix them into the corn.

  2. Add the salt, pepper, and milk, and beat everything together well.

Fry and serve

  1. Heat a well-greased griddle over high heat and fry spoonfuls of the mixture.

  2. Cook until they are a rich, light brown, turning them as needed.

  3. Serve immediately, cooking only one griddleful at a time.

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. Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  2. Corn + milktop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,955 recipes

    Shared aroma: hexanal (green, grassy).

  3. Corn + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,324 recipes

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

  4. Corn + buttertop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,345 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-pentanedione (butter, sweet).

  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

Corn
Provides the main body and sweet flavor of the fritters.
Eggs
Bind the corn together and help the fritters set as they cook.
Milk
Adds moisture to loosen the mixture so it can be spooned onto the griddle.

The step that matters

Cook one griddleful at a time on a well-greased, very hot griddle. Crowding the griddle drops its temperature, so the fritters steam instead of browning. A hot, well-greased surface sets the outside quickly and gives the rich, light brown color the recipe calls for.

“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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