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Canned Quinces or Plums

A preserved fruit made by boiling quinces or plums in sugar water and canning the mixture.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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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 ↓

Canned Quinces or Plums

Ingredients

Directions

Make the syrup

  1. Boil the sugar and water together.

Prepare and cook the fruit

  1. Peel the quinces, remove the cores, and cut them into halves or quarters.

  2. Add the quinces to the boiling sugar water and cook until soft.

Can

  1. Pour the hot mixture into cans while scalding hot.

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. 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

Quinces
Provide the fruit that softens and flavours the preserve.
Sugar
Sweetens the syrup and helps preserve the fruit.

The step that matters

Pour while scalding hot. Keeping the fruit and syrup very hot when they go into the cans helps drive out air and reduces the chance of spoilage in the sealed jar. Letting the mixture cool before canning allows microbes more opportunity to survive.

“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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