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Canned Fruits

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Pear and quince match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 133 recipes. Both carry ethyl isobutyrate, which smells fruity, ethereal. The science ↓

Canned Fruits

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Strew sugar over the fruit and let it sit for a few hours.

  2. Scald the fruit with the sugar until the sugar penetrates.

  3. For harder fruits, boil longer until tender.

  4. Prepare glass jars by placing them in a tin pan of hot water.

  5. Fill the jars with boiling hot fruit, sealing them tightly with heated tops.

  6. Occasionally tighten the tops as the fruit cools and shrinks.

  7. Store jars in a dark, cool, dry place.

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. Pear + quincetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together133 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  2. Sugar + peartop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,079 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-penten-3-one (fish, pungent).

  3. Sugar + quincetop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,444 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-penten-3-one (fish, pungent).

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

Swap the quince

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Applefits better
  3. Plumfits better
  4. Quincethe original

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

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