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Italian Fritters

Bread slices fried in butter, topped with apricot jam and wine, served hot or cold.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Apricot and almond match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 852 recipes. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

Italian Fritters

Oven, in the book's wordsA hot oven

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Cut the bread into slices ¼ inch thick, then into rounds.

Fry and arrange

  1. Heat the butter in a frying pan and fry the bread until golden brown.

  2. Arrange the fried bread in a circle on a plate.

Glaze and serve

  1. In a saucepan, combine the jam and wine, and bring to a boil.

  2. Pour the boiling mixture over the fritters and sprinkle with finely-chopped almonds.

  3. Serve hot or cold.

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. Apricot + almondtop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together852 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  2. Butter + almondtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,245 recipes

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

  3. Butter + winetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,645 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).

  4. Wine + apricottop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together247 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-methoxybenzaldehyde (sweet, anise).

  5. Butter + apricottop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,458 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

French rolls
Provide the bread base that fries to a crisp golden exterior around a soft interior.
Butter
Fat for frying, which browns the bread and adds richness.
Apricot jam
Adds sweetness and fruity flavor, and its sugars help glaze the fritters.
Wine
Thins the jam into a pourable glaze and adds acidity and aroma.
Almonds
Add crunch and nutty flavor to the finished fritters.

The step that matters

Frying the bread until golden brown. Fry over moderate heat so the outside browns before the inside dries out. Too hot and the crust scorches while the centre stays raw; too cool and the bread absorbs butter and turns greasy.

“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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