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Raspberry Fritters

Fritters made with a French roll crumb, cream, egg yolks, raspberry juice, fried in lard, garnished with almonds and sugar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Raspberry and almond match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 552 recipes. Both carry alpha-pinene, which smells pine, turpentine. The science ↓

Raspberry Fritters

Ingredients

Directions

Make the batter

  1. Grate the crumb of a French roll and mix it with boiling cream.

  2. Once cooled, add the beaten egg yolks and raspberry juice.

  3. Drop small amounts of the mixture into boiling lard.

Fry and serve

  1. Fry until golden brown, then remove and drain on a sieve.

  2. Garnish with sliced almonds and serve hot, sprinkled with 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.

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. Raspberry + almondtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together552 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

  2. Cream + sugartop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

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

  3. Cream + raspberrytop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,332 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  4. Cream + almondtop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,130 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-heptanol (bitter, floral).

  5. Almond + sugartop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together15,679 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-penten-3-one (fish, pungent).

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

What each ingredient does

French roll crumb
Soaks up the boiling cream to form a soft, cohesive base for the fritters.
Boiling cream
Softens the bread crumb and adds richness and moisture to the batter.
Egg yolks
Bind the mixture and add richness, helping the fritters hold together when fried.
Raspberry juice
Adds fruit flavour and tartness, along with moisture, to the batter.
Boiling lard
Conducts heat to fry the fritters quickly, producing a golden, crisp exterior.

The step that matters

Drop the mixture into boiling lard. The lard must be hot enough to set the outside quickly. If it is too cool, the batter absorbs fat and becomes greasy and loose instead of forming a crisp, golden crust.

Swap the raspberry

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cream, egg, almond, sugar):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Raisinfits better
  3. Figfits about as well
  4. Raspberrythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cream, egg, almond, sugar. 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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