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Apple Juice for Jams

A method for making apple juice that can be used to make jam.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Apple and raspberry work together. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 282 recipes. Both carry damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

Apple Juice for Jams

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the apples

  1. Wash the apples in cold water.

  2. Slice the washed apples.

  3. Place the sliced apples in a pan and cover with water.

  4. Boil the apples until they are soft and pulpy, adding more water if the mixture becomes thick.

Make the juice

  1. Remove the pan from heat and strain the mixture through jelly bags.

  2. For each pint of juice, add 6 oz of sugar and boil until it jellies.

  3. If using unpreserved raspberries, add the necessary sugar to the juice.

  4. Mix in raspberry jam or other jam and boil briefly to combine.

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.

Explore the science

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 + raspberrytop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together282 recipes

    Shared aroma: damascenone (apple, rose).

  2. Apple + sugartop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together16,478 recipes

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

  3. Sugar + raspberrytop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,101 recipes

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

Apple and sugar 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

Good cooking apples
Provide the pectin and pulp that give the juice its body and set when boiled with sugar.
Sugar
Sweetens the juice and helps it set into a jelly when boiled.
Raspberry jam
Adds extra flavour and sweetness to the juice.

The step that matters

Boiling the juice with sugar until it jellies. Sugar and pectin set the juice only when enough water has evaporated and the mixture reaches the setting point. Stopping too early leaves a runny result, while overboiling can make it stiff and dull in flavour.

Swap the raspberry

The recipe marks raspberry as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (apple, sugar):

  1. Pearfits better
  2. Vanillafits better
  3. Apricotfits better
  4. Raspberrythe original

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

“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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