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Strawberry Jelly

A fruit jelly made from ripe strawberries, sugar, jelly powder, and hot water, served with whipped cream.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Sugar and cream are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 43,450 recipes. Both carry 2,3-butanedione, which smells butter, sweet. The science ↓

Strawberry Jelly

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the strawberries

  1. Wash and cut the strawberries.

  2. Mix the strawberries with sugar and let them stand for 1 hour.

Make the jelly

  1. Dissolve the jelly powder in hot water.

  2. When the mixture begins to thicken, add the sweetened strawberries.

  3. Pour the mixture into a cake pan with a tube and set it on ice until firm.

Serve

  1. Turn out onto a platter and serve with whipped cream.

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.

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.

  1. Sugar + creamtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Strawberries
Provide the main flavor, color and fruit texture of the jelly.
Sugar
Sweetens the strawberries and balances their natural tartness.
Jelly powder
Gelling agent that sets the liquid into a firm, sliceable jelly when chilled.
Whipped cream
Adds richness and a cool, creamy contrast to the jelly.

The step that matters

Adding the strawberries while the jelly thickens. Gelatin-type setting begins as the mixture cools and thickens; adding fruit too early or too late can leave it runny or unevenly set. Adding the sweetened strawberries at the thickening stage helps them distribute evenly before the jelly firms.

“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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