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Fruit Gelatine

A chilled gelatin dessert made with oranges, pineapple, bananas, and sugar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Pineapple and banana match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 733 recipes. Both carry ethyl isobutyrate, which smells fruity, ethereal. The science ↓

Fruit Gelatine

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Prepare the gelatin according to the package instructions.

  2. Combine diced oranges, diced pineapple, and sliced bananas in a bowl.

  3. Sweeten the mixture to taste.

Assemble and set

  1. Once the gelatin is cool, pour the fruit mixture into it, discarding the juice.

  2. Rinse a mold with cold water before filling it with the gelatin mixture.

  3. Place the mold in the refrigerator to set.

Serve

  1. Once set, turn out onto a serving platter and serve with meat.

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. Pineapple + bananatop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together733 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  2. Orange + pineappletop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,664 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  3. Orange + bananatop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,118 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  4. Pineapple + sugartop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together4,841 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  5. Banana + sugartop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,102 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

Knox's gelatine
Sets the liquid into a firm, sliceable structure as it cools.
Oranges
Add fresh citrus flavour and acidity, and pieces of fruit for texture.
Pineapple
Adds sweet tropical flavour and fruit pieces to the set gelatin.
Bananas
Add soft texture and mild sweetness to the fruit mixture.

The step that matters

Pour the fruit into cooled gelatin. If the gelatin is still warm, it can not set properly and the fruit may float or sink unevenly. Waiting until it is cool but still liquid lets the fruit distribute and the gelatin set firmly.

Swap the orange

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Strawberryfits better
  3. Pearfits better
  4. Orangethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pineapple, banana, 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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