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Coffee Jelly

A gelatin dessert made with coffee, sugar, and water.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
By Johnson, Vt. Congregational church. [from old catalog] · From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Sugar and coffee are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 17% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,344 recipes. Both carry beta-damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

Coffee Jelly

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Add 1 box gelatin to 1 cup sugar.

  2. Add 2 pints water and scant half cup dry coffee.

  3. Let it boil up once, strain, and add to the rest.

  4. Eat with whipped cream.

By Johnson, Vt. Congregational church. [from old catalog]. 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.

  1. Sugar + coffeetop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together4,344 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

Gelatin (in the method)
Sets the coffee liquid into a firm jelly as it cools.
Sugar
Sweetens the coffee and adds body to the liquid.
Dry coffee
Gives the jelly its coffee flavor and aroma.
Water
Dissolves the gelatin, sugar and coffee to form the liquid base.

The step that matters

Let it boil up once, strain, and add to the rest.. Bring the mixture to a boil only once. Prolonged boiling can weaken gelatin's setting power, so the jelly may not firm properly.

“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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