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Frozen Oranges

A recipe for frozen orange segments with sugar, lemon juice, and water.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Orange and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 10,634 recipes. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

Frozen Oranges

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the oranges

  1. Rub the rind of 3 oranges into the sugar.

  2. Peel all the oranges.

  3. Open the sections.

  4. Remove the pulp.

Make the mixture

  1. Add the pulp, sugar, and lemon juice together.

  2. Let it sit for 1 hour.

  3. Add the water.

  4. Stir until the sugar dissolves.

Freeze

  1. Pour the mixture into a freezer and freeze.

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. Orange + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together10,634 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

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

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

  3. Orange + sugartop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together19,212 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

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

Oranges
Provide the main juice and flavor, and the rind adds aromatic oils.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and keeps the frozen mixture softer by lowering its freezing point.
Lemon juice
Adds acidity that brightens the flavor and balances the sweetness.

The step that matters

Stir until the sugar dissolves. Undissolved sugar crystals can stay gritty in the frozen result, so the mixture should be stirred until the sugar is fully dissolved before freezing.

“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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