Name: Fruit Fritters
Ingredients: Bananas; Oranges; Pineapple; Peaches; Fritter batter; Oil for frying

Why it works: Banana and pineapple match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 733 recipes. Both carry ethyl isobutyrate, which smells fruity, ethereal. The science ↓

Fruit Fritters

Ingredients

Directions

Cut the fruit into small pieces or slices.
Prepare the fritter batter according to your preferred recipe.
Heat oil in a deep pan until very hot.
Add the fruit to the batter and mix well.
Drop spoonfuls of the batter with fruit into the hot oil.
Fry until golden brown, then remove and drain on paper towels.

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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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.

Banana + pineappletop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together733 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).
Pineapple + peachtop 3% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together168 recipes

Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).
Banana + peachtop 3% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together130 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).
Orange + pineappletop 6% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,664 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).
Orange + peachtop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together385 recipes

Shared aroma: pinene (pine, turpentine).