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Plantain Fritters

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Sugar and orange are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 20% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 19,212 recipes. Both carry beta-damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

Plantain Fritters

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Peel the plantains and cut each in half, then split each half.

  2. In a bowl, combine the plantain pieces with sugar and orange juice. Let it sit for 1 hour.

  3. Prepare a batter and dip each slice of plantain into it, coating thoroughly.

  4. Using a fork, lift the slices and drop them into hot fat. Fry for 3 minutes.

  5. Once done, remove the fritters from the fat and drain on paper.

  6. Arrange the fritters in a circle on a flat dish, sift powdered sugar over them, and serve hot.

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. Sugar + orangetop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together19,212 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

Sugar and orange barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 19,212 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

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