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Gelatine Jelly

A gelatin-based dessert made with lemon rind and juice, sugar, boiling water, and optional fruit juice, set in a mold.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Lemon and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 18% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 53,532 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Gelatine Jelly

Ingredients

Directions

Make the jelly

  1. Dissolve the gelatine in cold water.

  2. Add the lemon rind and juice, and sugar.

  3. Pour in the boiling water and mix well.

  4. Add additional fruit juice to taste.

Set

  1. Pour the mixture into a mold and refrigerate until set.

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.

Explore the science

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. Lemon + sugartop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together53,532 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

Lemon and sugar barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 53,532 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

Gelatine
Forms the gel network that gives the jelly its firm, sliceable set.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and balances the sharpness of the citrus juice.
Lemon rind and juice
Provides acidity and bright citrus aroma that flavour the jelly.

The step that matters

Dissolve the gelatine in cold water first. Gelatine granules must hydrate in cold liquid before heating so they dissolve evenly. Adding them to hot liquid directly can cause clumps, and the gel may then set unevenly or grainy.

“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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