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Passion Fruit Jam

A sweet preserve made from passion fruit pulp, seeds, and sugar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Passion fruit and sugar work together. They rank in the top 25% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 144 recipes. Both carry beta-damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

Passion Fruit Jam

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Cut the passion fruits in half and scoop out the pulp with a spoon.

  2. Take one fourth of the skins and boil them in water until tender.

Make the jam

  1. Add the pulp, seeds, and juice to a pot.

  2. Mix in 1 lb of sugar and boil until the mixture reaches the proper consistency.

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. Passion fruit + sugartop 25% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together144 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

Passion fruit
Provides the main flavor, aroma and acidity, and its pulp and seeds give the jam body.
Sugar
Sweetens the jam and, as it cooks down, helps it thicken and set.

The step that matters

Boiling to the proper consistency. Sugar and fruit pectin set as the mixture cooks and water evaporates. Boiling too briefly leaves the jam runny, while boiling too long can make it stiff and cause the sugar to crystallize.

“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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