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Canning, Preserving, and Jelly 'making

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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 20 ingredients
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Why it works: Apricot and peach match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 342 recipes. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Canning, Preserving, and Jelly 'making

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare the fruit by washing and cutting as necessary.

  2. For each type of fruit, boil for the specified time: Apricots (10 min), Apples (25 min), Blackberries (10 min), Cherries (6 min), Currants (5 min), Gooseberries (6 min), Wild Grapes (8 min), Huckleberries (10 min), Peaches (halved, 5 min), Peaches (whole, 8 min), Plums (15 min), Pineapple (10 min), Bartlett Pears (halved, 15 min), Small Sour Pears (20 min), Quinces (30 min), Rhubarb (30 min), Raspberries (10 min), Strawberries (6 min), Tomatoes (8 min).

  3. Add sugar according to the quantity needed per quart: 8 oz for Apricots, 6-8 oz for Apples, 5-6 oz for Blackberries, 6 oz for Cherries, 8 oz for Currants, 8 oz for Gooseberries, 4 oz for Wild Grapes, 4-6 oz for Huckleberries, 4 oz for Peaches (halved), 4-6 oz for Peaches (whole), 8 oz for Plums, 8-10 oz for Pineapple, 4 oz for Bartlett Pears (halved), 6-8 oz for Small Sour Pears (whole), 0 oz for Quinces, 6-8 oz for Rhubarb, 8 oz for Raspberries, 8 oz for Strawberries, and 0 oz for Tomatoes.

  4. Seal the jars properly and process according to canning guidelines.

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. Apricot + peachtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together342 recipes

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

  2. Apricot + plumtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together284 recipes

    Shared aroma: damascenone (apple, rose).

  3. Peach + plumtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together163 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  4. Apple + grapetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,659 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

  5. Apple + plumtop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together404 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

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

Swap the currant

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (apricot, apple, grape, peach, plum, pineapple, bartlett pear):

  1. Pearfits better
  2. Bananafits better
  3. Vanillafits better
  4. Currantthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against apricot, apple, grape, peach, plum, pineapple, bartlett pear. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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