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Fruit Jelly

A fruit jelly made with apples, orange, lemon, pineapple, sugar, rum, maraschino, and gelatin, set in a mold.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Orange and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 10,634 recipes. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

Fruit Jelly

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the fruit

  1. Cut the thin yellow rind from the orange and lemon.

  2. Chop the apples without peeling them and pound the seeds.

Cook and strain

  1. Combine the apples, pineapple, orange juice, lemon juice, sugar, and water in a saucepan.

  2. Boil for twenty minutes, then strain the mixture.

Flavour and set

  1. Add the rum and maraschino to the strained liquid.

  2. Pour into a mold and refrigerate until set.

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. Orange + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together10,634 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  2. Pineapple + rumtop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together451 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  3. Apple + pineappletop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together530 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

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

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  5. Apple + orangetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,230 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

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

What each ingredient does

Gelatine
Sets the strained liquid into a firm, sliceable jelly as it cools.
Lump sugar
Sweetens the fruit liquid and adds body to the finished jelly.
Apples
Provide pectin and fruit flavour that contribute to the jelly's body.
White rum
Adds aroma and a warm, spirited flavour to the jelly.

The step that matters

Straining the boiled mixture. Gelatine sets clear only in a liquid free of solids, so straining out the pulp and seeds thoroughly prevents a cloudy, grainy jelly.

Swap the lemon

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Bananafits better
  3. Mangofits better
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against apple, orange, pineapple, sugar, rum. 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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