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Jelly for Meat

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Apple and grape match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,659 recipes. Both carry 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells green bell pepper, earthy. The science ↓

Jelly for Meat

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare the fruit by washing and cutting them as needed.

  2. Combine the fruits in a pot and cook over medium heat until soft.

  3. Strain the mixture through a fine sieve to extract the juice.

  4. Measure the juice and add an equal amount of sugar.

  5. Bring the mixture to a boil, stirring until the sugar dissolves.

  6. Continue boiling until the jelly reaches the desired consistency.

  7. Pour the jelly into sterilized jars and 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. Apple + grapetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,659 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

  2. Apple + raspberrytop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together282 recipes

    Shared aroma: damascenone (apple, rose).

  3. Raspberry + grapetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together197 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-hex-3-en-1-ol (freshly cut grass green and herbaceous notes).

  4. Currant + raspberrytop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together366 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl benzoate (fruity, sweet).

  5. Apple + curranttop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,918 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, pear).

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

Swap the currant

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (apple, crab, raspberry, grape):

  1. Pearfits better
  2. Peachfits better
  3. Strawberryfits better
  4. Currantthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against apple, crab, raspberry, grape. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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