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Tipparee Cheese or Marmalade

A fruit cheese made by simmering boiled fruit with sugar and orange marmalade, then molded and chilled.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Sugar and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 17% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 98,233 recipes. Both carry guaiacol, which smells smoky, sweet. The science ↓

Tipparee Cheese or Marmalade

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the fruit

  1. Pass the boiled fruit through a sieve, discarding the skins.

  2. Clean a few more tipparees and add them to the strained fruit.

Make the cheese

  1. Combine the fruit mixture with sugar in a wide-mouthed vessel and simmer until thickened.

  2. Add 1 tablespoon of orange marmalade for each mold.

  3. Dampen the molds with melted butter using a feather.

  4. Pour the hot cheese mixture into the molds.

Set and unmold

  1. Place the molds in cold water and turn them out once cooled to retain their shape.

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. Sugar + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together98,233 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  2. Sugar + orangetop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together19,212 recipes

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

  3. Orange + buttertop 23% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,301 recipes

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

Sugar and orange barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 19,212 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Boiled fruit
Provides the main body and flavour of the cheese once reduced.
Sugar
Sweetens the mixture and helps it thicken as it simmers.
Orange marmalade
Adds sweetness, citrus flavour and a little acidity to the cheese.
Melted butter
Coats the molds with a thin fat layer so the cheese releases cleanly.

The step that matters

Simmer until thickened. The mixture must be cooked long enough that sugar and fruit pectin set firmly as it cools. Undercooked fruit stays soft and will not hold its shape when turned out of the mold.

Swap the orange

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sugar, butter):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Figfits better
  3. Peachfits better
  4. Orangethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, butter. 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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