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Cider Marmalade

A preserve made by boiling sweet cider and apples until thick.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Why it works: Cider and apple are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,238 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-one, which smells mushroom, metallic. The science ↓

Cider Marmalade

Ingredients

Directions

Reduce the cider

  1. Boil the sweet cider in a large kettle over a brisk fire until it reduces to 1 gallon.

  2. Prepare the apples by peeling and cutting them.

Cook the marmalade

  1. Once the cider is reduced, add the prepared apples to the kettle.

  2. Continue to boil the mixture for 4 hours, stirring constantly.

  3. Use a hickory stick for stirring.

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. Cider + appletop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,238 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

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

What each ingredient does

Sweet cider
Reduces down to concentrate its sugars and flavor, forming the base of the marmalade.
Apples
Provide pectin and body, and their fruit solids thicken the reduced cider as it cooks.

The step that matters

Stirring during the long boil. Constant stirring keeps the thickening mixture from scorching on the bottom of the kettle, since sugars caramelize and burn once concentrated and hot.

“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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