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Lemon Jelly with Fruit

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Banana and grape work together. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 496 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-one, which smells mushroom, metallic. The science ↓

Lemon Jelly with Fruit

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Spread sliced bananas or oranges over the bottom of a deep glass dish.

  2. While warm, pour enough lemon jelly over the fruit to cover it.

  3. Set the dish on ice to cool quickly, keeping the remaining jelly warm near the fire.

  4. Once the jelly in the dish is stiff enough, add more fruit slices and cover with jelly again.

  5. Repeat until the dish is filled, ensuring the additional jelly is not too warm.

  6. For a decorative option, tie a bunch of grapes to a stick and rest it on top of the dish, pouring jelly around the grapes.

  7. Once the jelly is cool, remove the stick and string, leaving the grapes in the center.

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. Banana + grapetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together496 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  2. Lemon + grapetop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,412 recipes

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

  3. Banana + lemontop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,134 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

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

Swap the grape

The recipe marks grape as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (banana, lemon):

  1. Orangefits better
  2. Limefits better
  3. Pineapplefits better
  4. Grapethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against banana, lemon. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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