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Fried Bread in Batter

Bread slices dipped in batter and fried, then dusted with powdered sugar and served with jelly.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Milk and bread are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 11,466 recipes. Both carry 2-undecenal, which smells sweet. The science ↓

Fried Bread in Batter

Ingredients

Directions

Make the batter

  1. Dissolve the sweet light dough in the sweet milk.

  2. Add the eggs, flour, and salt, then mix until smooth.

Fry and serve

  1. Dip the thin slices of light bread into the batter.

  2. Fry the battered bread in hot lard until golden brown.

  3. Sprinkle with powdered sugar.

  4. Garnish with jelly.

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. Milk + breadtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,466 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  2. Egg + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

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

  3. Milk + flourtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together78,219 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Flour + sugartop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together92,116 recipes

    Shared aroma: phenylacetaldehyde (hawthorne, honey).

  5. Egg + flourtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together106,462 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

Milk and flour barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 78,219 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

Eggs
Bind the batter and help it set and crisp around the bread when fried.
Flour
Forms the body of the batter so it coats the bread and fries to a firm crust.
Sweet light dough
Adds yeasty flavor and softness to the batter.
Sweet milk
Moistens the batter and adds richness and tenderness.

The step that matters

Frying the battered bread in hot lard. If the lard is not hot enough, the batter absorbs fat and turns greasy instead of forming a crisp, golden crust. Hot fat sets the coating quickly, sealing the bread inside.

“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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