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Canning Fruit

A method for boiling various fruits with sugar to preserve them in jars.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 14 ingredients
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Why it works: Plum and pear match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 245 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓

Canning Fruit

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Boil plums for 10 minutes with 10 ounces of sugar per quart.

  2. Boil blackberries for 8 minutes with 6 ounces of sugar per quart.

  3. Boil sliced pie plant for 10 minutes with 8 ounces of sugar per quart.

  4. Boil whole peaches for 15 minutes with 4 ounces of sugar per quart.

  5. Boil cherries for 5 minutes with 6 ounces of sugar per quart.

  6. Boil gooseberries for 8 minutes with 8 ounces of sugar per quart.

  7. Boil halved Bartlett pears for 20 minutes with 6 ounces of sugar per quart.

  8. Boil raspberries for 6 minutes with 4 ounces of sugar per quart.

  9. Boil sliced quinces for 30 minutes with 10 ounces of sugar per quart.

  10. Boil Siberian crabapples for 25 minutes with 8 ounces of sugar per quart.

  11. Boil small sour pears for 30 minutes with 10 ounces of sugar per quart.

  12. Boil quartered sour apples for 20 minutes with 8 ounces of sugar per quart.

  13. Boil strawberries for 8 minutes with 8 ounces of sugar per quart.

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. Plum + peartop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together245 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  2. Pear + appletop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together649 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, fruity).

  3. Plum + peachtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together163 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  4. Quince + peartop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together133 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  5. Peach + peartop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together114 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

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

Swap the bartlett pear

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (plum, peach, quince, pear, apple, sugar):

  1. Apricotfits better
  2. Vanillafits better
  3. Figfits better
  4. Bartlett pearthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against plum, peach, quince, pear, apple, sugar. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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