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French Fritters

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

Why it works: Orange and pineapple are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,664 recipes. Both carry ethyl isobutyrate, which smells fruity, ethereal. The science ↓

French Fritters

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare a batter as per the previous recipe.

  2. Roll out the batter very thin and cut into rounds.

  3. Place two rounds together with a filling of your choice (marmalade or jam).

  4. Pinch the edges to seal and fry until golden brown.

  5. Dust with sugar and 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.

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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. Orange + pineappletop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,664 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  2. Pineapple + strawberry jamtop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together9 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl cinnamate (strawberry).

  3. Pineapple + sugartop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together4,841 recipes

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

  4. Orange + sugartop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together19,212 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  5. Strawberry jam + sugartop 25% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together291 recipes

Orange and sugar barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 19,212 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

Swap the strawberry jam

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (orange, pineapple, sugar):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Mangofits better
  3. Figfits better
  4. Strawberry jamthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against orange, pineapple, sugar. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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