Why it works: Raspberry and orange work together. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 521 recipes. Both carry damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓
Frances Kolar
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Put all fruit, the yellow rind cut into small pieces, and the oranges into a porcelain-lined kettle over the fire.
Place the sugar in a shallow drip pan in the oven.
Cook and set
When the fruit and juices have cooked about three-quarters of an hour, add the hot sugar, allowing it to boil up as you would jelly.
Pour the jam into jelly glasses.
Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)
Counts 4 of 5 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.
What these numbers assume: 4 portions
| Ingredient | Portion assumed | kcal |
|---|---|---|
| Raspberry | 1 cup (123g) | 64 |
| Grape | 1/2 cup (76g) | 62 |
| Orange | 1 medium (131g) | 62 |
| Sugar | 1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated | 49 |
| Currant | not in our table | 0 |
One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.
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.
Explore the science
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.
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Raspberry + orangetop 8% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together521 recipes
Shared aroma: damascenone (apple, rose).
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Currant + raspberrytop 10% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together366 recipes
Shared aroma: ethyl benzoate (fruity, sweet).
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Currant + raisintop 10% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together6,180 recipes
Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, creamy).
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Raisin + orangetop 13% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together1,684 recipes
Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).
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Raisin + sugartop 13% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together12,481 recipes
Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).
Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs
What each ingredient does
- Currant juice
- Provides tartness and fruit flavor, along with natural pectin that helps the jam set.
- Raspberry juice
- Adds fruity aroma and flavor, and contributes liquid that cooks down into the jam.
- Seeded raisins
- Add concentrated sweetness and chewy body to the finished jam.
- Sugar
- Sweetens the jam and, as it cooks down, helps it thicken and set.
The step that matters
Adding the hot sugar at a full boil. Sugar must dissolve and the mixture must reach a rolling boil so the pectin and acid can work together to set the jam. Adding sugar too early or cooking too briefly can leave the jam runny.
Swap the currant
How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (raspberry, raisin, sugar, orange):
- Vanillafits better
- Figfits better
- Peachfits better
- Currantthe original
Fit is the average pairing score against raspberry, raisin, sugar, orange. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.
“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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