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Arrowroot Jebey

A simple arrowroot jelly flavored with blackberry cordial.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Arrowroot and blackberry share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 11 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Arrowroot Jebey

Ingredients

Directions

Make the jelly

  1. In a bowl, mix arrowroot and sugar.

  2. Pour in boiling water and stir until dissolved.

  3. Add blackberry cordial and mix well.

Serve

  1. Serve warm or at room temperature.

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. Arrowroot + blackberrytop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together11 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Arrowroot + sugartop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,073 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-penten-3-one (fish, pungent).

  3. Sugar + blackberrytop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,033 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Arrowroot
Thickens the liquid into a clear, glossy jelly as it dissolves in hot water.
Blackberry cordial
Adds flavour and sweetness to the jelly.
White sugar
Adds sweetness and helps balance the flavour of the jelly.

The step that matters

Pour in boiling water and stir until dissolved. Arrowroot must be fully dissolved and heated to thicken. If the water is not hot enough or the starch is not stirred smoothly, it can stay lumpy or fail to set. Add the cordial after the starch has thickened, since acidic or sugary liquids added too early can weaken arrowroot's thickening power.

Swap the blackberry

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (arrowroot, sugar):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Lemonfits better
  3. Raisinfits better
  4. Blackberrythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against arrowroot, sugar. 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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