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Green Corn Fritters

A batter of boiled green corn, eggs, milk, and salt, fried in muffin rings.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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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 ↓

Green Corn Fritters

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the batter

  1. Boil the corn and grate it as for pudding.

  2. Beat the eggs very lightly and gradually stir them into the milk.

  3. Slowly mix in the grated corn until you have a moderately thick batter.

  4. Add the salt and mix well.

Cook and serve

  1. Butter the inside of muffin rings and place them on a hot griddle.

  2. Fill the rings nearly to the top with batter and cook until well baked.

  3. Serve 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. 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 + buttertop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,345 recipes

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

  4. Egg + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

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

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

What each ingredient does

Corn
Provides the bulk and sweet corn flavour, and its starch helps thicken the batter.
Eggs
Bind the batter and set during cooking to give the fritters structure.
Milk
Adds moisture and loosens the batter so it fills the rings evenly.

The step that matters

Fill the rings nearly to the top with batter and cook until well baked. Eggs set as they heat, so the centre needs enough time on the griddle to firm through. Undercooked centres stay wet and collapse, while the outside may already be browned.

“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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