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Beignets

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Pineapple and banana match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 733 recipes. Both carry ethyl isobutyrate, which smells fruity, ethereal. The science ↓

Beignets

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare the ingredients by cleaning and cutting them as needed.

  2. For each type of fritter, dip the pieces in batter and fry in hot oil until golden brown.

  3. Serve hot with a sprinkle of salt or your choice of seasoning.

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. Pineapple + bananatop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together733 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  2. Apricot + pineappletop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together377 recipes

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

  3. Apricot + bananatop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together124 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-methyl-1-butanol acetate (fruity).

  4. Artichoke + apricottop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together15 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  5. Artichoke + beeftop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together140 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

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

Swap the banana

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (artichoke, apricot, pineapple, beef, gruyere cheese):

  1. Plumfits better
  2. Applefits better
  3. Cherryfits better
  4. Bananathe original

Fit is the average pairing score against artichoke, apricot, pineapple, beef, gruyere cheese. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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