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Quince Marmalade

A sweet preserve made from quince fruit and sugar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 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 ↓

Quince Marmalade

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the fruit

  1. Steam the quince fruit until tender.

  2. Mash the fruit very finely.

Make the marmalade

  1. Heat the sugar before adding it to the fruit.

  2. Combine the sugar with the mashed fruit.

  3. Place the mixture on the stove.

  4. Bring the mixture to a boil, then seal.

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

Quince fruit
Provides the main body, pectin and flavor of the marmalade.
Granulated sugar
Sweetens the marmalade and helps it thicken and set as it cooks.

The step that matters

Bringing the mixture to a boil. Quince relies on pectin and sugar concentration to set. The mixture must reach a full boil and thicken enough, otherwise the marmalade stays runny. Overcooking can scorch the sugar and darken the flavor.

“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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