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Peach Fritters

Ensure the lard is boiling before adding the peaches to prevent spoilage.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Peach Fritters

Why it works: Peach and rum work together. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 84 recipes. Both carry beta-damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

Peach Fritters

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Peel, stone, and halve the peaches.

  2. Sprinkle peaches with grated lemon peel and sugar, then add rum or brandy.

  3. Cover and let sit for 2 to 3 hours, then drain.

  4. Make a batter for fruit fritters using the liquor from the peaches.

  5. At the last moment, fold in beaten egg whites until stiff.

  6. Ensure the batter is thick enough to coat the fruit.

  7. Heat deep lard in a saucepan until boiling.

  8. Dip each peach piece into the batter and drop into the hot lard.

  9. Fry until golden-brown, then remove with a skimmer to drain on brown paper.

  10. Sift powdered sugar over the fritters and serve in a pyramid on cut paper.

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. Peach + rumtop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together84 recipes

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

  2. Peach + lemontop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together947 recipes

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

  3. Rum + sugartop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,908 recipes

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

  4. Peach + sugartop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,308 recipes

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

  5. Lemon + sugartop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together53,532 recipes

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

Lemon and sugar barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 53,532 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

Swap the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (peach, rum, sugar, egg):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Pineapplefits better
  3. Apricotfits better
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against peach, rum, sugar, egg. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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