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Fritters and Croquettes

A fried snack made from a mixture of rice, milk, orange marmalade, eggs, and spices, served with sugar and sweetened cream.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 13 ingredients
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Why it works: Nutmeg and raisin are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,377 recipes. Both carry alpha-terpineol, which smells lilac, floral. The science ↓

Fritters and Croquettes

Ingredients

Directions

Make the set mixture

  1. Remove any excess milk and mix with orange marmalade and beaten eggs.

  2. Stir the mixture over heat until the eggs are set.

  3. Spread the set mixture about ½ inch thick on a plate.

  4. Allow the mixture to cool completely.

Cut and fry

  1. Cut the cooled mixture into strips.

  2. Dip the strips in batter.

  3. Fry the battered strips until golden brown.

Serve

  1. Serve the fritters on a doily.

  2. Sprinkle sifted sugar over the fritters.

  3. Serve immediately.

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. Nutmeg + raisintop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,377 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-terpineol (lilac, floral).

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

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

  3. Rice + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,374 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  4. Orange + nutmegtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,746 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  5. Rice + nutmegtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,779 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Set by heat to bind the mixture so it holds its shape when cooled and cut.
Milk
Adds moisture and softness to the custard-like mixture before it is set.
Orange marmalade
Adds sweetness and citrus aroma to the set mixture.
Sifted sugar
Adds a light sweet finish on the fried fritters.

The step that matters

Cool the set mixture completely before cutting. Eggs set into a firm structure only as the mixture cools. Cutting it while warm can make the strips soft and misshapen, and they may break apart when dipped and fried.

Swap the orange

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (egg, sugar, rice, milk, butter, nutmeg, raisin):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Figfits better
  3. Coconutfits better
  4. Orangethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, sugar, rice, milk, butter, nutmeg, raisin. 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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