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Jellied Baked Apples

A baked apple dessert with a sugar syrup that sets into a jelly.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Sugar and apple are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 18% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 16,478 recipes. Both carry beta-damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

Jellied Baked Apples

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 300°F (150°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Make the syrup

  1. Melt and slightly brown the sugar in a saucepan.

  2. Dissolve the sugar with water.

Bake the apples

  1. Add the apples, cover, and bake slowly at 300°F (150°C), basting occasionally.

  2. Uncover and brown the apples nicely before removing from the oven.

  3. Add more water if the syrup boils away.

Mold ahead

  1. Arrange the apples in a buttered mold and strain the syrup over them.

  2. Prepare at least a day before serving.

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 + appletop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together16,478 recipes

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

Sugar and apple barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 16,478 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Sugar
Sweetens the dish and caramelizes to add color and a deeper flavor to the syrup.
Apples
Hold their shape during slow baking and add tart acidity that balances the sweet syrup.

The step that matters

Slightly browning the sugar. Caramelizing sugar develops color and toasty flavor in the syrup. If it goes too dark, the sugar turns bitter, and the syrup will carry that bitterness into the finished apples.

“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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