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Potato Fritters

A fried potato patty made with boiled potatoes, almond milk, eggs, and sweetened with cinnamon and sugar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Almond and cinnamon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,514 recipes. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

Potato Fritters

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the batter

  1. Whisk the eggs with the almond milk in a bowl.

  2. Mix the whisked eggs and almond milk with the boiled potatoes using a fork.

Fry

  1. Heat oil in a pan until boiling.

  2. Drop spoonfuls of the potato mixture into the hot oil and fry until golden brown.

  3. Drain the fritters on kitchen paper.

Serve

  1. Arrange on a glass dish and sprinkle with ground cinnamon and sugar.

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. Almond + cinnamontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,514 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  2. Potato + milktop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,611 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,z)-2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, melon).

  3. Milk + cinnamontop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,655 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  4. Cinnamon + sugartop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together30,779 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  5. Potato + almondtop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together337 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

Cinnamon and sugar barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 30,779 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

Potatoes
Form the bulk of the fritters, giving a soft, starchy interior.
Eggs
Bind the mashed potato together so the fritters hold their shape.
Almond milk
Adds moisture to the mixture so it binds and stays tender.

The step that matters

Frying the fritters in hot oil. If the oil is not hot enough, the fritters absorb excess oil and turn greasy, while oil that is too hot browns the outside before the centre cooks through. Frying in small spoonfuls keeps the oil temperature steady.

Swap the potato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (almond, milk, egg, cinnamon, sugar):

  1. Sweet potatofits better
  2. Arrowrootfits better
  3. Beetrootfits better
  4. Potatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against almond, milk, egg, cinnamon, sugar. 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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