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Bread Fritters

Bread fritters made with sweet milk, bread crumbs, eggs, butter, baking soda, and fried, then dusted with powdered sugar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 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 Fritters

Ingredients

Directions

Make the batter

  1. Heat the milk in a saucepan until boiling.

  2. Pour the hot milk over the bread crumbs and mix until smooth.

  3. Add the beaten egg yolks, salt, melted butter, and baking soda dissolved in a little hot water.

  4. Beat the egg whites until stiff and fold them into the mixture.

Fry and serve

  1. Heat oil in a frying pan and drop spoonfuls of the batter into the hot fat.

  2. Fry until golden brown and sprinkle with powdered sugar before serving.

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

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  4. Bread + eggtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

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

  5. Egg + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

What each ingredient does

Bread crumbs
Soak up the hot milk to form the body of the batter.
Eggs
Yolks enrich and bind the batter; whipped whites lighten it and help it rise.
Baking soda
Reacts to lift and aerate the fritters as they fry.
Melted butter
Adds richness and fat for tenderness and flavour.
Sweet milk
Hydrates the crumbs and gives the batter a soft, tender structure.

The step that matters

Folding in the beaten egg whites. Stiff whites hold air that lightens the batter. Folding gently keeps that air in; stirring hard deflates it, leaving dense fritters.

“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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