Name: Another Marmalade
Ingredients: 2 cups grated uncooked quince; 2 cups powdered white sugar; brandied paper; tight cover

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 ↓

Another Marmalade

Ingredients

2 cups grated uncooked quince
2 cups powdered white sugar
brandied paper
tight cover

Directions

Prepare

Grate the uncooked quince after peeling it.
Mix the grated quince with powdered white sugar in equal parts.

Jar and store

Pack the mixture into jars.
Cover the jars with brandied paper and a tight cover.
Store in a cool place; it will keep all winter.

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.

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

Quince: Provides the fruit base and pectin-rich flesh that thickens the marmalade as it sets.
Powdered white sugar: Sweetens the fruit and helps preserve it by drawing out moisture.

“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.