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Fktjit Jellies

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Apple and quince work together. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 506 recipes. Both carry ethyl isobutyrate, which smells fruity, ethereal. The science ↓

Fktjit Jellies

Oven, in the book's wordsA rather cool oven

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Remove the stalks from the plums and currants. Pare, quarter, and core the apples and quinces, placing them in clean water to prevent discoloration.

  2. Make an incision in damsons and other hardy fruits. Place the prepared fruits in a clean stone jar or enamelled stew-pan.

  3. Add ½ to 1 cup of spring water for every pound of fruit. Cover the jar with bladder or thick paper.

  4. Place the jar in a cool oven overnight, or in a deep pan of water to heat gradually, or over a clear fire.

  5. Stir the fruit occasionally until the juice is released.

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. Apple + quincetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together506 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  2. Apple + plumtop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together404 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  3. Quince + plumtop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together92 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).

  4. Plum + curranttop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together255 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).

  5. Apple + curranttop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,918 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, pear).

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

Swap the currant

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (apple, quince, plum, sugar):

  1. Pearfits better
  2. Apricotfits better
  3. Peachfits better
  4. Currantthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against apple, quince, plum, sugar. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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