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Bread and Cheese Fritters

Bread and cheese fritters are fried balls made from stale bread, milk, cheese, eggs, and butter.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 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 Cheese Fritters

Ingredients

Directions

Make the mixture

  1. Soak the diced bread in warm milk for 20 minutes.

  2. Drain some of the milk, then add the cheese and stir in the egg yolks.

  3. Melt the butter in a saucepan, add the mixture, and season with salt. Stir until warm.

  4. Allow to cool slightly, then gently fold in the beaten egg white.

  5. Form the mixture into even-sized balls.

Fry and serve

  1. Dip each ball in the beaten egg, then coat with breadcrumbs.

  2. Heat frying fat and fry the balls until golden brown.

  3. Drain on paper or cloth, then serve on a hot dish.

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.

Explore the science

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. Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  3. Bread + cheesetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,130 recipes

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

  4. Cheese + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,962 recipes

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

  5. Milk + cheesetop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,426 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Stale bread
Soaked in milk, it forms the soft, tender body of the fritters.
Gruyere cheese
Melts into the mixture, adding richness and savory flavor.
Egg yolks
Enrich the mixture and help bind it together as it heats.
Egg white
Beaten to stiff peaks and folded in, it lightens the mixture's texture.
Butter
Adds fat and richness to the mixture and helps it turn silky when warmed.

The step that matters

Allow to cool slightly, then gently fold in the beaten egg white.. Stiff egg white holds air that gives lightness. Folding gently and only after the mixture has cooled a little keeps the foam from collapsing, which would make the fritters dense.

“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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