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Cheese fritters made with sliced apples, cheese, eggs, and butter.

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

Why it works: Cheese and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 7,962 recipes. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Cheese Fritters

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Slice the apples thinly.

  2. Prepare thin slices of cheese.

  3. Beat the eggs and season with salt, mustard, and pepper.

  4. Soak the cheese slices in the egg mixture for a few minutes.

Assemble and fry

  1. Sandwich each cheese slice between two apple slices.

  2. Dip the sandwiches into the egg mixture.

  3. Fry in hot butter until golden brown.

  4. Serve very 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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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. Cheese + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,962 recipes

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

  2. Mustard + peppertop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together15,430 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  3. Apple + cheesetop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together294 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  4. Cheese + mustardtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,805 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  5. Apple + buttertop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,706 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

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

What each ingredient does

Tart apples
Provide the fruity body and bite that contrasts with the rich cheese and fried coating.
Cheese
Melts slightly when fried, adding richness and a savoury flavour to each fritter.
Eggs
Form the coating that binds the fritters and sets into a golden crust when fried.
Butter
Conducts heat for frying and promotes browning of the egg coating and fruit.

The step that matters

Frying in hot butter. If the butter is not hot enough, the egg coating absorbs fat and turns greasy before it sets and browns. Hot fat sets the egg quickly, forming a crisp golden crust that holds the sandwich together.

Swap the apple

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cheese, egg, mustard, pepper, butter):

  1. Lemonfits better
  2. Avocadofits better
  3. Figfits better
  4. Applethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cheese, egg, mustard, pepper, butter. 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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