Name: Jellied Fruit
Ingredients: one cup of sugar; one quart of milk; one pint of cream; a tablespoonful of lemon to every quart; a pint of cream; two lemons; 74 harvest festival ices; one tea- cup sugar to every quart

Why it works: Lemon and tea work together. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 610 recipes. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

Jellied Fruit

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the fruit

Put layers of oranges, bananas, and pineapple in a dish, alternating with layers of sugar.
Quarter the oranges, slice the bananas, and use preserved pineapple if fresh pineapple is unavailable.

Make the lemon jelly

Make a lemon jelly.
Mix half a box of gelatin, dissolve in lukewarm water, add juice of two lemons and one cup of sugar.

Set and serve

Turn the fruit over and set on ice to harden.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

261Calories

9 gProtein

14 gFat

29 gCarbs

What these numbers assume: 4 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Milk	1 cup (244ml) whole	149
Cream	1 tbsp (15ml) heavy	51
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 Ladies' Benevolent Society, First Congregational Church (Fall River, Mass .). Ladies' Benevolent Society, Mass.) First Congregational Church (Fall River. 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.

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.

Lemon + teatop 8% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together610 recipes

Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).
Sugar + creamtop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together43,450 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).
Milk + teatop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together738 recipes

Shared aroma: 4-heptenal (creamy, biscuit).
Milk + lemontop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together19,053 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).
Milk + creamtop 18% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together29,399 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Gelatin (in the method): Sets the liquid into a firm jelly that holds the fruit together.
Sugar: Sweetens the fruit and draws out juices that help form the syrup.
Lemons: Add acidity and brightness that balance the sweetness of the fruit and sugar.