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Bice Fritters

A sweet fritter made from cooked rice, milk, sugar, butter, orange marmalade, and eggs, then fried.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 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 ↓

Bice Fritters

Ingredients

Directions

Make the rice mixture

  1. Combine rice, milk, sugar, and butter in a saucepan. Cook over low heat until the rice is tender, about 30 minutes.

  2. Strain any remaining milk from the rice.

  3. Mix in the orange marmalade and beaten eggs.

  4. Cook the mixture over low heat until the eggs are set.

Shape and fry

  1. Spread the mixture on a dish to about ½ inch thick and let it cool completely.

  2. Once cooled, cut the mixture into long strips.

  3. Dip the strips in batter (similar to apple fritters) and fry until golden brown.

Serve

  1. Serve on a white doily, dusted with sifted sugar.

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.

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

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

  2. Rice + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,374 recipes

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

  3. Rice + orangetop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,067 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  4. Milk + orangetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,696 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  5. Rice + buttertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,645 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

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

What each ingredient does

Rice
Forms the starchy body that thickens and holds the strips together.
Eggs
Set on cooking to bind the mixture so it can be cut into firm strips.
Milk
Cooks with the rice to give a soft, creamy texture.
Orange marmalade
Adds sweetness, acidity, and orange aroma to the mixture.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and helps the fritter surface brown when fried.

The step that matters

Let the mixture cool completely before cutting. A warm mixture is soft and sticky, so strips will tear or collapse. Cooling lets the egg and starch set into a firm body that holds its shape through dipping and frying.

Swap the orange

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (rice, milk, sugar, butter, egg):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Coconutfits better
  3. Figfits better
  4. Orangethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against rice, milk, sugar, butter, egg. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“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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