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Bread and Butter Fritters

Fried squares of jam‑topped bread coated in batter and dusted with caster sugar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Bread and Butter Fritters

Ingredients

Directions

Assemble

  1. Spread half the slices of bread and butter with jam.

  2. Cover with the remaining slices and cut into 4 squares.

Fry and serve

  1. Dip the squares into the prepared batter.

  2. Drop them into hot fat and fry slowly until crisp and lightly browned, about 15 minutes.

  3. Drain well, dredge with caster 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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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. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

  2. Butter + sugartop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together98,233 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  3. Bread + sugartop 32% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together8,638 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Bread and butter slices
Form the outer shell that crisps and holds the jam filling while frying.
Jam
Adds sweetness and moisture that softens the bread inside the fritter.
Frying batter
Coats the squares and fries to a crisp, golden, browned shell.
Caster sugar
Adds sweetness and a fine sugary finish on the hot fritters.

The step that matters

Drop them into hot fat and fry slowly until crisp and lightly browned. If the fat is too cool, the batter absorbs oil and turns greasy instead of crisp. Frying at a steady temperature sets the batter quickly and cooks the filling through without burning the outside.

“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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