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Gelatine Lemonade

A chilled gelatin-based lemon drink made with sugar and lemon juice.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Sugar and lemon are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 18% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 53,532 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Gelatine Lemonade

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the gelatine

  1. Soak the gelatine in cold water for a few minutes.

  2. Dissolve the soaked gelatine in boiling water.

Set the lemonade

  1. Stir in the sugar and lemon juice until well combined.

  2. Chill in the refrigerator until set.

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 + lemontop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together53,532 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

Sugar and lemon barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 53,532 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

Gelatine
Sets the liquid into a wobbly gel as it cools.
Sugar
Adds sweetness to balance the sharp lemon.
Lemon juice
Adds sharpness and citrus flavour that cuts the sweetness.

The step that matters

Dissolve the soaked gelatine in boiling water.. Gelatine must melt completely before the sugar and lemon go in; undissolved granules leave specks and weak patches in the set gel.

“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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