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Apple, Peach, Apricot, or Orange Fritters

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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Peach and apricot match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 342 recipes. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Apple, Peach, Apricot, or Orange Fritters

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Core the apples without dividing them and slice into rounds.

  2. Dip the apple slices into the batter and fry until pale brown and dry.

  3. Serve the fritters heaped on a folded napkin and sprinkle with sifted sugar.

  4. For oranges, remove the outer rind and white inner skin, slice, and remove the seeds.

  5. Dip the orange slices into the batter and fry as with the apple fritters.

  6. Peel, halve, and stone the peaches and apricots, then dip into the batter.

  7. If the peaches or apricots are not fully ripe, stew them tender in a thin syrup first.

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. Peach + apricottop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together342 recipes

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

  2. Apple + apricottop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together777 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-undecalactone (peach, sweet).

  3. Apple + peachtop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together303 recipes

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

  4. Apricot + orangetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together703 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  5. Peach + orangetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together385 recipes

    Shared aroma: pinene (pine, turpentine).

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

Swap the orange

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (apple, peach, apricot, sugar):

  1. Pearfits better
  2. Plumfits better
  3. Vanillafits better
  4. Orangethe original

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

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