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Fruit Juice Sauce

A sauce made from fruit juice, sugar, and arrowroot, used for hot puddings.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Sugar and arrowroot are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 20% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,073 recipes. Both carry 1-penten-3-one, which smells fish, pungent. The science ↓

Fruit Juice Sauce

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Combine 2 cups of fruit juice in a saucepan.

  2. Gradually add 1 cup of sugar mixed with 2 teaspoons of arrowroot, stirring constantly.

  3. Bring the mixture to a boil and skim if necessary. Cook for 5 minutes.

  4. Use this sauce for any hot puddings.

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 + arrowroottop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,073 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

Fruit juice
Forms the liquid base of the sauce and carries its fruity flavour.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and balances the tartness of the fruit juice.
Arrowroot
Thickens the juice into a glossy sauce when heated.

The step that matters

Adding the sugar and arrowroot. Arrowroot clumps if it meets hot liquid directly, so it is mixed with sugar first and stirred in gradually while stirring constantly. This spreads the starch evenly so the sauce thickens smoothly without lumps.

“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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