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Cream Fritters

A sweet fritter made with flour, macaroons, candied orange flowers, lemon peel, sugar, eggs, milk, cream, and beaten egg whites.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Orange and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 10,634 recipes. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

Cream Fritters

Oven, in the book's wordsA moderate oven

Ingredients

Directions

Make the batter

  1. In a bowl, combine flour, pounded macaroons, browned orange flowers, candied lemon peel, and sugar.

  2. Beat the yolks of the eggs and mix with milk and cream. Gradually stir the egg mixture into the dry ingredients.

  3. Fold in the beaten egg whites gently.

Fry and serve

  1. Fry spoonfuls of the mixture in hot oil until golden brown.

  2. Drain on paper towels and serve warm.

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. Orange + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together10,634 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  2. Sugar + creamtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

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

  3. Flour + milktop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together78,219 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Flour + sugartop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together92,116 recipes

    Shared aroma: phenylacetaldehyde (hawthorne, honey).

  5. Lemon + milktop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together19,053 recipes

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

Flour and milk barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 78,219 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Egg whites
Beaten whites trap air, giving the fritters a light, airy lift when fried.
Egg yolks
Yolks add richness and help bind the batter into a smooth, cohesive mixture.
Flour
Flour provides the main structure that holds the fritters together as they set.
Pounded macaroons
Macaroons add almond flavour and a tender, slightly sandy texture to the batter.
Milk
Milk adds moisture and softness, loosening the batter so it blends smoothly.

The step that matters

Fold in the beaten egg whites gently. Folding keeps the air trapped in the beaten whites. Stirring hard would deflate the batter, leaving the fritters dense instead of light.

Swap the orange

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

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

Fit is the average pairing score against flour, sugar, lemon, egg, milk, cream. 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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