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Crushed Vruits for Soda Water

A sweetened fruit concentrate made with sugar, tartaric acid, gelatin, and optional coloring, used as a soda water flavoring.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Sugar and gelatin are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,778 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Crushed Vruits for Soda Water

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the fruit

  1. Prepare the fruit by peeling and pitting it.

  2. Pass the fruit through a meat chopper with medium-sized holes.

Make the syrup

  1. In a kettle, combine the fruit with 8 lbs of sugar and 1 oz of tartaric acid.

  2. Heat the mixture to 190 °F (88 °C) and stir until the sugar dissolves.

Add gelatin and finish

  1. Soak 2 oz of Japanese gelatin in cold water for 6 hours, then dissolve it in a little heat.

  2. Add the dissolved gelatin to the fruit mixture and stir well.

  3. Add coloring to achieve the desired shade.

  4. For every 100 lbs of the product, add 1 6‑10 oz of preservative.

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. Sugar + gelatintop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,778 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

What each ingredient does

Fruit
Provides the main flavor and most of the body of the syrup.
Sugar
Adds sweetness, thickness, and helps preserve the syrup.
Tartaric acid
Adds acidity that sharpens the fruit flavor.
Japanese gelatin
Adds body and a thicker, smoother texture to the syrup.

The step that matters

Dissolving the gelatin fully. Gelatin must be completely dissolved in warm water before it goes into the fruit mixture. Undissolved granules stay as lumps or specks and do not disperse evenly, so stir well to distribute it.

“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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