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Raspberry Fritters

A sweet fritter made with grated bread, cream, egg yolks, raspberry juice, fried in lard and garnished with almonds.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Biscuit and almond match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 388 recipes. Both carry nonanal, which smells fat, citrus. The science ↓

Raspberry Fritters

Ingredients

Directions

Make the batter

  1. Combine the grated roll or biscuits with the boiling cream and let it cool.

  2. Stir in the beaten egg yolks and raspberry juice until well mixed.

Fry and serve

  1. Drop small amounts of the mixture into a pan of boiling lard.

  2. Fry until golden brown, then garnish with sliced blanched almonds.

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. Biscuit + almondtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together388 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  2. Raspberry + almondtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together552 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

  3. Biscuit + raspberrytop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together109 recipes

    Shared aroma: maltol (caramel, sweet).

  4. Biscuit + creamtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,235 recipes

    Shared aroma: octanal (fat, soap).

  5. Cream + raspberrytop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,332 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

French roll or naples biscuits
Provides the bulk and body that the cream soaks into, giving the fritters their structure.
Boiling cream
Softens the grated bread or biscuit and adds richness and moisture to the mixture.
Egg yolks
Bind the mixture and set when fried, giving the fritters a tender, rich interior.
Raspberry juice
Adds fruity flavour and colour to the batter.
Lard
Fries the fritters, browning the outside and adding fat for a crisp crust.

The step that matters

Dropping the mixture into the hot lard. If the lard is not hot enough, the fritters absorb excess fat and turn greasy; if too hot, the outside browns before the centre cooks. Small portions keep the temperature steady and cook through evenly.

Swap the raspberry

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (biscuit, cream, egg, almond):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Coconutfits about as well
  3. Raisinfits about as well
  4. Raspberrythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against biscuit, cream, egg, almond. 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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