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Oranges Filled with Jelly

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Orange and coffee work together. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 326 recipes. Both carry 2,3-butanedione, which smells buttery, creamy. The science ↓

Oranges Filled with Jelly

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Cut a small round hole in the end of each orange.

  2. Scoop out the inside of the orange with a small spoon, being careful not to break the skin.

  3. Rinse the orange with cold water and shake out the excess.

  4. Fill the orange with red jelly and set it in ice until it hardens.

  5. Fill the remaining space with orange jelly and let it harden.

  6. Fill the last third with jelly colored with coffee, chocolate, or spinach juice.

  7. Once very hard, cut the oranges into quarters with a sharp knife.

  8. Serve on a bed of green or pull the quarters apart and serve one to each person on a bed of smilax.

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 + coffeetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together326 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (buttery, creamy).

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