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Orange Marmalade

A preserved citrus spread made by boiling sliced oranges with water, then adding liquid and lemon juice.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Orange and lemon 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 Marmalade

Ingredients

Directions

Soak the oranges

  1. Combine sliced oranges and water in a bowl.

  2. Let the mixture stand for 24 hours.

Cook the marmalade

  1. Boil the mixture for 45 minutes.

  2. Let it stand for another 24 hours.

  3. Add 1 pint of the liquid and boil for 2.5 hours.

  4. When almost cooked, add the juice of 1 lemon for every 4 or 5 oranges.

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. Orange + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together10,634 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

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

What each ingredient does

Oranges
Supply the peel, which contains pectin for setting, plus the bitter flavor and aroma.
Lemon juice
Adds acidity that helps the pectin set and brightens the flavor.

The step that matters

Adding the lemon juice when almost cooked. Lemon juice is acidic and helps the orange pectin set into a gel. Adding it near the end keeps its bright flavor and helps the marmalade reach a good set without overcooking the peel.

“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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