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Strawberry Marmalade

A preserve made from strawberries and red currant juice with sugar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Red currant and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 26% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,156 recipes. Both carry 2,3-butanedione, which smells butter, sweet. The science ↓

Strawberry Marmalade

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the fruit

  1. Mash strawberries smoothly.

  2. Add the strained juice of red currants.

  3. Add ¾ lb sugar to 1 lb fruit.

Cook

  1. Boil until thick, about 20 minutes.

Jar

  1. Put in jelly glasses or sealers.

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. Red currant + sugartop 26% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,156 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Strawberries
Provide the main fruit body, flavor, and bulk of the marmalade.
Red currant juice
Adds tartness and natural pectin to help the marmalade set.
Sugar
Adds sweetness, and its concentration during boiling helps the marmalade set and keep.

The step that matters

Boil until thick. Sugar, fruit acid and pectin only set into a gel at a high enough concentration. Stopping too early leaves a runny marmalade, while boiling too long can scorch the sugar and make it stiff and dark.

“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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