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Green Corn Fritters

A fried batter of green corn, flour, eggs, and salt.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Corn and onion are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,205 recipes. Both carry hexanal, which smells green, grassy. The science ↓

Green Corn Fritters

Ingredients

Directions

Make the batter

  1. In a basin, mix the green corn with the flour, beating continuously to avoid lumps.

  2. Add the eggs and salt, and mix until well combined.

Fry and serve

  1. Heat oil in a pan until boiling.

  2. Spoon about ½ cup of the mixture into the pan and fry until both sides are a light brown.

  3. Serve with fried onions if desired.

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. Corn + oniontop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,205 recipes

    Shared aroma: hexanal (green, grassy).

  2. Corn + flourtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,165 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Flour + eggtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together106,462 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Flour + oniontop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together32,460 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Corn + eggtop 26% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,484 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

Flour and egg barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 106,462 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

Green corn
Provides the main body and sweet flavour of the fritters.
Flour
Thickens the batter and helps hold the fritters together while frying.
Eggs
Bind the mixture and help set the fritters as they cook.

The step that matters

Beating the flour into the corn. Stirring continuously as the flour goes in breaks up clumps so the batter stays smooth and evenly bound. Lumps left in dry flour can stay floury and make the fritters uneven in texture.

Swap the onion

The recipe marks onion as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (corn, flour, egg):

  1. Arrowrootfits better
  2. Asparagusfits better
  3. Chivefits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against corn, flour, egg. 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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