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Sweet Fritters

A batter-based sweet fritter made with sugar, eggs, milk, and thickened batter, cooked in a waffle iron.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Egg and milk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 18% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 88,785 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Sweet Fritters

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the batter

  1. Mix the sugar into the batter.

  2. Make a thicker batter than for griddle cakes, but not too thick.

  3. Add at least 2 eggs for every quart of milk.

Cook in the waffle iron

  1. Preheat and grease your waffle irons.

  2. Fill one side of the waffle iron with batter. Close the waffle iron. Keep both sides hot.

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. Egg + milktop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together88,785 recipes

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

  2. Sugar + milktop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together77,875 recipes

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

  3. Sugar + eggtop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together122,807 recipes

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

Sugar and milk barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 77,875 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

What each ingredient does

Sugar
Adds sweetness and helps the fritters brown as they cook.
Eggs
Add structure and richness, helping the batter hold together when cooked.
Milk
Provides the liquid that hydrates the batter and sets the texture.

The step that matters

Keep both sides of the waffle iron hot. Heat from both plates cooks the batter evenly and sets it quickly. Without enough heat, the fritters stay pale, soft, and may stick or tear when opened.

“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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