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Canned Quinces

A preserved quince dish made by boiling sliced quinces in a sugar syrup.

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 ↓

Canned Quinces

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Prepare the quinces by peeling and slicing them into round slices, leaving the cores and seeds in.

Make the syrup and cook

  1. In a pot, combine the sugar with enough water to make a light syrup.

  2. Add the quinces to the syrup and boil until tender, about 2 to 2.5 hours.

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

Quinces
Provide the fruit's firm flesh, which softens into tender pieces during long simmering.
Sugar
Sweetens the fruit and forms the syrup that preserves it and carries its flavor.

The step that matters

Boiling the quinces until tender. Quince flesh is hard and starchy raw, and it needs long, gentle cooking in syrup to become tender. Stopping early leaves it firm and chalky, while boiling too hard can break the slices apart.

“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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