Name: Orange Jelly
Ingredients: 2 tablespoonfuls lemon juice; 1 cup sugar; 2 cups orange juice; lemon juice

Why it works: Lemon and orange match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 10,634 recipes. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

Orange Jelly

Ingredients

2 tablespoonfuls lemon juice
1 cup sugar
2 cups orange juice
lemon juice

Directions

box gelatine, cup cold water, cup boiling water.
Soften the gelatine in cold water, dissolve it with the hot water, add the sugar, lemon juice, orange. When all is dissolved, strain through a cheese cloth. Mould, garnish the mould, if you like, with slices of orange held in place with a little of the jelly, un- mould and surround with whipped cream, sprinkled over with candied orange peel. Or serve the orange jelly in orange basket made from the skin, with a little whipped cream on top. Set the orange basket on a few green leaves.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

123Calories

2 gProtein

0 gFat

31 gCarbs

What these numbers assume: 3 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Orange	1 medium (131g)	62
Sugar	1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated	49
Lemon	juice of 1 lemon (48ml)	12

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By Norton, Caroline Trask. 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. See the original page.

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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.

Lemon + orangetop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together10,634 recipes

Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).
Lemon + sugartop 18% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together53,532 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).
Sugar + orangetop 20% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together19,212 recipes

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