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Quince Jelly

Quince jelly is a sweet preserve made by cooking quinces with water and sugar until jelly consistency.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Quince Jelly

Why it works: Quince and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 21% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,444 recipes. Both carry 1-penten-3-one, which smells fish, pungent. The science ↓

Quince Jelly

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the quinces

  1. Select the finest quinces and store them on shelves without touching each other until they turn yellow and fragrant.

  2. Remove the stems and blossoms, wash the quinces, and cut them into pieces without peeling.

Make the jelly

  1. Place the pieces in a preserving kettle and cover them with water.

  2. Stir gently, adding more water as needed, until the quinces are soft.

  3. Pour the mixture into a jelly bag and let the liquid drain through without pressing.

  4. For each pint of liquid, add 1 pound of loaf sugar and boil until it reaches a jelly consistency.

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. Quince + sugartop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,444 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Quinces
Provide the pectin and tart aroma that let the liquid set into a jelly.
Loaf sugar
Sweetens the jelly and helps it set firm when boiled to the right consistency.

The step that matters

Letting the liquid drain without pressing. Pressing the bag forces cloudy solids through, which makes the jelly murky. Gentle draining keeps it clear.

“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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