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Coffee Jelly

A gelatin set coffee dessert served with whipped cream and macaroons.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Sugar and cream are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 43,450 recipes. Both carry 2,3-butanedione, which smells butter, sweet. The science ↓

Coffee Jelly

Oven, in the book's wordsA moderate oven

Ingredients

Directions

Make the jelly

  1. Dissolve the gelatine in enough water to cover it.

  2. Stir the dissolved gelatine into 1 quart of strong boiling coffee and sweeten to taste.

  3. Strain the mixture through a flannel cloth or jelly bag.

  4. Pour the strained mixture into a wet fancy mold.

  5. Once set, turn out the jelly onto a dish.

Serve

  1. Serve with whipped cream heaped around the base and macaroons on the side.

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. Sugar + creamtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

  2. Coffee + creamtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,339 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-heptanol (bitter, floral).

  3. Coffee + sugartop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together4,344 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Gelatine
Sets the coffee liquid into a firm, sliceable jelly once chilled.
Strong coffee
Provides the main flavour and liquid base of the jelly.
Sugar
Sweetens the bitter coffee to the cook's preferred taste.

The step that matters

Strain the mixture before pouring. Straining through flannel or a jelly bag removes grounds and undissolved gelatine, giving a clear, smooth jelly rather than a cloudy or gritty one.

“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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