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Apples Baked in Strawberry Jam

Apples baked with strawberry jam and served hot with cream.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Apple and strawberry jam work together. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27 recipes. Both carry methyl cinnamate, which smells strawberry. The science ↓

Apples Baked in Strawberry Jam

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Core the tart apples and place them in a baking dish.

  2. Fill the cavities with strawberry jam.

Bake and serve

  1. Bake until the apples are soft.

  2. Serve hot with 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.

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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. Apple + strawberry jamtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together27 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl cinnamate (strawberry).

  2. Strawberry jam + creamtop 27% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together143 recipes
  3. Apple + creamtop 27% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,089 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Tart apples
Hold their shape while softening, giving a tender, slightly tart flesh that balances the sweet filling.
Strawberry jam
Adds sweetness and fruity aroma, and its sugar caramelizes slightly in the cavity as it bakes.
Cream
Adds richness and cool fat that contrasts with the hot, sweet fruit.

The step that matters

Bake until the apples are soft. Underbaked apples stay firm and starchy, while overbaking makes them collapse. Check by piercing the flesh with a knife; it should slide in easily without the apple splitting apart.

Swap the apple

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (strawberry jam, cream):

  1. Strawberryfits better
  2. Raspberryfits better
  3. Vanillafits better
  4. Applethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against strawberry jam, cream. 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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